Caveny: cartoonist

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J. FRANKLIN CAVENY, Chalk-talker, artist, humorist and lecturer, has long been styled the Young Frank Beard.  Mr. Caveny has added to his natural ability with brush and pencil, such training as the best art schools can give.  His crayon sketches are revelations of beauty and caricature.  One scene is evolved from another under his deft strokes with wonderful rapidity.  Landscape is changed to marine, daylight to moonlight; bleak winter to the glories of summer; dead paper and dull canvas to glowing pictures.  On special programs Mr. Caveny does rapid clay modeling.


Caveny is a witty and artistic genius.
He makes birds fly;
He makes chalk fly;
He makes his tongue fly;
And his fingers fly;
And as the people laugh and wonder at these different flies,
They are amazed to see how time flies.
So take J. Franklin Caveny
If artist you would have any.

—Fred Emerson Brooks, Poet-Reader.



PERSONAL MENTION
W. K. White (The White Entertainment Bureau, Boston, Mass.)—Mr. Caveny's work is the best of its kind I have ever seen.

Spillman Riggs (Lecturer and Manager of Central Lyceum Bureau, Columbus, O.)—I have frequently been asked by Chautauqua managers and lyceum committees to name the most thoroughly entertaining crayon artist on the American platform, and I never hesitate to say that I consider J. Franklin Caveny to be that man.  As a lecturer I have followed him in hundreds of courses, and his praise is always heard where his work has been seen.

A. E. Palmer (Manager Southwestern Branch Central Lyceum Bureau)—It is with sincere pleasure that I speak of the platform work of Mr. Caveny.  I have had the opportunity of seeing his work, both in part and in full programs, and unhesitatingly say that his chalk-talks never fail to captivate his audiences.  There is novelty in his work, which gives the charm; there is variety which gives the spice; there is strength coupled with deftness which gives character.  He is by temperament and education an artist; by genius an entertainer.  Mr. Caveny has won golden opinions and continues to be received with the very warmest favor and delight.

Fred Pelham (Manager Central Lyceum Bureau of Chicago)—We have heard no adverse criticism.  Your work is giving great satisfaction everywhere.

Louise E. Francis—Mr. J. Franklin Caveny is the Frank Beard of the future.  I have been press reporter for the leading Chautauquas for twelve years; have repeatedly heard all the great crayon artists of the period, and I consider Mr. Caveny one of the most successful chalk-talkers of today.

James F. Oates. Secretary Central Y. M. C. A., Chicago—Mr. Caveny made one of the hits of the season here.  He was repeatedly recalled.

Miss Jane Addams Chicago—Mr. Caveny has been at the Hull-House several times and delighted all with his artistic sketches.

Otis Skinner—Dainty, poetic, eloquent.

Marshall Field—You can use my name as reference.

Henry Watterson—Your drawing was very good.

William Allen White—J. Franklin Caveny highly pleased the people.  He is certainly worthy of patronage.

N. N. Riddell (Lecturer)—Mr. J. Franklin Caveny captivated the Chautauqua audiences where it was my pleasure to hear him.  Caveny excels as a colorist and is very rapid in execution; and is a great success.

Ernest Gamble (Basso)—J. Franklin Caveny is a most attractive number on the Chautauqua program or lecture course.  I have enjoyed his clever and artistic work exceedingly.  For a refined and yet popular entertainer he ranks with the very best.

Rev. D. F. Fox (Lecturer), Chicago—I saw and heard Mr. Caveny and was delighted with his work.  He has the true artistic temperament and knows how to popularize.  I can only echo what I heard on all sides.  He is a genius in his line.

J. J. Hennessy (Secretary of the Knights of Columbus, Auburn, N. Y.)—Mr. Caveny was a great success.  The audience was loath to leave when he had finished, and many waited to be personally introduced.  His work was simply wonderful.  He was the best of the entire course and we want him again.

E. W. Landon (Manager Stamford. N. Y., Seminary Lecture Course Association)—Mr. Caveny, the artist, won the hearts of our people from the first; and every deft movement of his hand was a source of pleasure and delight.  No mistake can be made in obtaining the services of this talented artist.

Rev. Thomas McClary (Lecturer)—J. Franklin Caveny comprehends the picture alphabet, and with a touch of the chalk causes wonder, laughter and surprise.  No committee will regret employing him.  He is a gentleman worthy of the great success he has made in his art.

T. E. Dewey (Literary Critic and Supreme Court Reporter, Topeka, Kan)—He does not depend alone upon his skill in caricature as most artists of his kind do, but with the colored chalks produces beautiful scenes of land and water, day and night, winter and summer.  Each step of his work is a surprise, and the interest and wonder of the audience increases to the end.

George F. Brown, Jr. (Chicago Athletic Association)—Mr. Caveny's chalk-talk was one of the most delightful entertainments we ever had.  The artistic quality of his landscapes, the humor of his caricatures and his dexterity delighted us all.

Hon. C. W. Varnum (Secretary Trinity M. E. Church Lecture Course, Denver. Colo,)—It gives me great pleasure to say that your entertainment gave universal satisfaction, as you could very well see by the fact that you were called back three or four times, and they wanted you more.  To me your work is little short of marvelous, and I hope we may have the pleasure of seeing you again.

Geo. H. Iott (Basso)—Mr. Caveny compels his auditors to toe the chalk-mark, for he manipulates the chalk with such conjuring skill that they could not do otherwise if they would.

A. S. Humphrey, Prof. Knox Col. Dept. Oratory, Galesburg. III.—Caveny is the greatest crayon artist on the platform.

B. W. Hutchinson (Lima, N. Y.)—For rapid and entertaining sketching before an audience, I have never seen his superior.

President Henry Hartzog (State Agricultural College, Clemson, S. C.)—Mr. Cavenyisaman in whom the artist and the humorist blend into a charming personality.


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PRESS COMMENT

The Lyceum Review, September, 1902, Rochester, N. Y.
—J. Franklin Caveny is the most original and satisfactory Chalk-talk performer before the American public.  To deft fingers and the gift of monologue, he adds real merit as an artist.  His pictures are charming, while the wholesome blending of sense and nonsense in his work lends pleasing variety to the program.


St. Louis Republic
—He holds an enviable position along with Beard and other equally noted cartoonists.


New York World
—Caveny is justly entitled the Young Frank Beard.


Springfield (Mass.) Republican
—Splendid oratory.  His work is a revelation.


Chicago Tribune
—Caveny's chalk-talk was grand.  His delineation is superb.  He is a genius.


Cincinnati Enquire.
—J. Franklin Caveny is superior to Frank Beard.  His caricatures were loudly applauded.


The Morning Oregonian, Portland, Ore.
—Mr. Caveny made a decided hit.


The Seattle (Wash.) Post-Intelligencer
—Mr. Caveny received unqualified approval.


Battle Creek (Mich.) Sunday Record
—Caveny proved one of the best performers ever seen here.


The Muscatine (Iowa) Journal
—Mr. Caveny is an artist in every sense of the word.


Kenosha (Wis.) Evening News
—Caveny made an instantaneous hit.


The Dallas (Tex.) Times-Herald
—He is an artist in voice and action as well as with the crayon.


Grand Island (Neb.) Independent.
—The work of Caveny was the best ever seen by the audience, and the applause given was most flatteringly vigorous.


Brookings Individual, (Brookings, S. Dak.)
—J. Franklin Caveny pleased the audience most.  His work was not far short of marvelous.


Watertown (S. Dak.) Tribune.
—J. Franklin Caveny, the crayon artist and lecturer, is an artist of rare ability.  His sketches are wonders of revelation as one scene is rapidly colored from another.


Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye.
—Mr. Caveny is a very clever as well as rapid working cartoonist, and his sketches with running comments are very interesting.  In transforming colored landscapes and marines, he was very ingenious.


Daily Herald (LaPorte. Ind.)
—J. Franklin Caveny gave a most pleasing entertainment at the Methodist Church last night.  His caricatures were fine.  His winter scene landscape was generously applauded.  His humorous sketches and magical transformations captured the audience.  Everybody was delighted.


Hamilton (Ont) Herald
—J. Franklin Caveny appeared before the audience and entertained them highly; in fact, he had to double his program because of encores.


The Daily Journal (Niagara Falls, N. Y.)
—J. Franklin Caveny has but few equals, and no peers as a crayon artist.  He did some caricature work which, though laughable, was of a very high order of merit.


Macon (Ga.) News
—Caveny's chalk-talk was a clever and unique entertainment.  Mr. Caveny certainly demonstrates that he is a wonder with the chalk.  He is certainly the peer of any artist-lecturer who has ever appeared in Macon.


Eaton (S D.) Citizen
—J. Franklin Caveny's chalk-talks go to make up an evening of the rarest entertainment.


North Adams (Mass.) Transcript.
—The star of the evening, however, was J. Franklin Caveny, and he pleased the audience greatly, with his quick work with the crayon.


Watertown (N Y.) Daily Standard.
—Mr. Caveny is the best crayon artist that has ever appeared before a Watertown audience.  His studies were both artistic and amusing.


Springfield (Mo.) Republican.
—First on the course came the celebrated cartoonist, J. Franklin Caveny, who with a few sweeping curves placed before us the classic brow and comic countenance, and then a few dots and dashes and there appeared before us that most enchanting scene, Moonlight on the Hudson.


Kansas City (Mo.) Times,
—J. Franklin Caveny gave an entertainment at the Y. M. C. A. yesterday.  The room was packed with an appreciative audience.  He gave a remarkable exhibition of lightning changes from one kind of picture to another.


Greeley (Colo.) Tribune.
—Mr. Caveny's crayonings of human mugs and following these up with lightning presentations of sunset scenes and moonlight secnes, all in several brilliant colors, were really too magical for the well-known reticence of the Greeley auditor; and he just simply had to voice his admiration.


Wichita (Kan.) Beacon.
—Mr. Caveny made a distinct hit.  He drew almost continuous applause by his clever work with the crayon.  To his final number he received two encores, and had to bow his acknowledgments to a third before the insistent audience would excuse him.


Port Henry (N. Y.) Herald.
—Mr. Caveny, the crayon artist, gave us a genuine treat.  His cartoons were apt, and his evolutions of landscapes and marines delighted every one.  Yet it was a question which were the most gratified—eyes or ears.


Saginaw (Mich.) Evening News.
—J. Franklin Caveny presented some very interesting effects with colored chalks, drawing caricatures of famous men, sketching faces from the audience and evolving unexpected results from peculiar beginnings.  The whole entertainment was delightful.


St. Paul (Minn.) Tribune
—J. Franklin Caveny, the caricature artist, was excellent.


San Miguel Examiner, Telluride, Colo.
—The chalk-talks of Mr. Caveny were more than entertaining.


The Evening Bulletin Boise City, Idaho
—But the greatest favorite was Caveny, the chalk-talker.  He drew some amusing caricatures which convulsed the audience.  His work was of a high grade.


Ogden (Utah) Daily Standard
—Mr. Caveny, in his landscapes and humorous sketches, accompanied with dramatic recitation, ran the gamut from the sublime to the ludicrous and held the audience spellbound.




J. FRANKLIN CAVENY CARTOONIST

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LATE REPORTS
D. E. LUTHER Sec'y Y. M. C. A., Atlanta, Georgia

One of the very best entertainments we have ever had in our building.

—October 6, 1903


DAILY TIMES Chattanooga, Tennessee
Too much cannot be said of Caveny, the Chalk Talker and Humorist.  His evolution pictures were appreciated.  His witticisms were bright and never failed to provoke a laugh.

—October 9, 1903


DAILY NEWS Galveston, Texas
Caveny is greater with the chalk than Thos.  Nast, the man who destroyed with his pictures 'Boss Tweed.'

—November 17, 1903

J. G. REEVES Sec'y Y. M. C. A., Ft. Worth, Texas

I have had the greatest Chalk Talkers of the country on the lecture course and I think Caveny more rapid and entertaining than any of his predecessors here.

—November 21, 1903




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