The Press: Hangover

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Rudolph Dirks lives in New York with his wife, a son, 13, who attends Horace Mann School, and a daughter, 16, at St. Agatha's. He likes to remember his early days in Chicago when he marveled at the sparkling, spat-wearing elegance of Art Young, the glittering importance of George Ade and John McCutcheon, the portfolio of sketches brought to his office one day by Rose O'Neill. Of late Dirks's interest in comics has waned, his penchant for oils waxed. Connoisseurs of Manhattan's art exhibitions have long been familiar with still-lifes by R. Dirks, latest of which is to be found at the 10th Anniversary Exhibition of the Salons of America in Manhattan. Sleeves rolled up showing the tattooed insignia of the 5th Artillery — his chief souvenir of a year in the Spanish-American War — stocky, solid, cheerful Artist Dirks is usually to be found working in his studio.