Art: Trojan Enterprise

TOO BUSY TO PAINT? CALL ON THE GHOST ARTISTS. WE PAINT IT—YOU SIGN IT, read an advertisement in the Washington Post last week. Explaining further, the ad said that Ghost Artists were well qualified to turn out work in almost any manner: primitive ("Grandma Moses type"), impressionist, modern, cubist and abstract.

Washington newsmen descended on Ghost Artists and at its headquarters in residential Georgetown, found a prosperous-looking man named Hugh Troy, 44, who described himself as an illustrator of children's books. His little outfit, said Troy, had been operating for a couple of years (without advertising). Among its satisfied clients, he said,...