Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-11-30
PALETTE AND EASEL.
Saturday sauutsrins Among Art
Studios.
The Work Of Ladies at Mrs. Reeds Studio.
Def Touches Of Dainty Fingers
Varied Art Notes.

decoration. Mrs. Reed is very successful
teacher and visit to her art rooms will re-
pay anyone who is interested in painting.
This school has local celebrity for the fine
portrait painting done. A partial list will
be found below showing some of the kinds
of work and the names of those who are
engaged at it. Many Of these examples are
entitled to more than passing notice, but
space forbids.
Miss Mollie Moran, panel Of gladiolias.
Mamie Henderson,, panel OF pansies and
landscape.
Miss Cora Warden, alabaster p'acqe and
FIRE screen.
Mrs. Joe Gallaher, fancy head in oil; also
china pieces.
Miss Clara Hicks, marine scene and a'a-
baster PLAGUE.
Miss Isadore Pollaek, brass PLAGUE and
dogs head in oil.
Miss Grace Blake, panel of flowers; por,
trait of father.
Mrs. Mamie Steele, panel Of lilies; also
husbands portrait.
Miss Ella Caldwell, marine scene and
fancy head in oil.
Miss Ella Baker, portrait Of child; also
winter landscape in oil
Miss Mary Smith, picture in oil of Enid;
also landscape in oil.
Mrs. LIE Hobbs, winter scene in oil; also
plush lambrequin in oil.
Miss Annie Hooton, panel in oil of holly
hooks; also landscape in oil.
Miss Emma Parkinson, PLAGUE and can
vas panel of rhododendrons.
Mrs. DR.. NJ. Mccormick, heads in re-
pousse and fancy pieces in OIL
Miss Maggie Hicks, tambourine in OIL
figure in oil called Simplicity"
Miss Ida Armstrong, a head in oil called
Aurora" also some fancy pieces in china.
Miss Julia Burleigh, morning scene in oil
some pieces in repousse work and childS
head in oil.
Miss Ella Lewis, panel Of peonies and g
handsome mirror; also a head called
-h"hAHs'
Miss Jennie Coen, panel of Fleur de Lis,
and companion piece Of peonies; also 8
head called Night.
A beautifully executed three-panel fire
screen, by Mrs. Wilkinson, is to be seen in
Franzheim's window.
Miss Matte Taylor, panel roses and com.
panion piece in petunias; also PLAGUE with
chryranthemums; also repouSse work.
The Christmas cards are just beginning
o make their appearance and a description
Of some of the newest and most popular de
signs will be given soon.
Nearly $500 oil paintings, over $50 draw
ings and water colors over 700 pieces OF
sculpture, besides architecture and engrav,
ing, in all 1865 works, make up the Paris
salon for this year.
The art gallery at the worlds exposition
is two hundred and eighty feet long and
eighty feet wide, II is constructed entirely
of iron, and is located between the main
building and Horticultural Hall.
Miss Louisa Helwig will soon commence
teaching an art class IN Elm Grove. She
commences under very favorable circum,
stances having quite number of pupils to
begin and the promise ofa great many
more.
Mr.. Geo. Storm is engaged on canvass
GxS feet. which when completed will be an
exact reproduction of the famous "Nymphs
and Satyr." 1t is the commission Of Mr.
Spencer, Of Pittsburg. The sum paid Ii
twelve hundred dollars.
Mrs. Eva Hubbard. the art professor Al
the Wheeling Female College is in New
York, and will return in the near future 10
resume her duties. She is at present re
ceiving instructions in the most celebrated
studios in the Metropolis.
Some novel Thanksgiving cards and
souvenirs were out last week. Among then
was seen cards beautifully printed with
May you be truly thankful" and decorated
with turkey heads, another token being pen:
made Of feathers and painted.
An art gallery is being constructed fol
Worlds Fair and Centennial Exposition, a
New Orleans, that is composed specimens
of marble and stones of the various States
and Territories, and Of such foreign coun
tries as may send specimens.
The old fashioned mantel mirrors ere
coming in fashion again. They have broaC
frames Of bronze which can be painted in &
bright dashy design, TO look very effective
Over mantels are still the fashion and ART
now seen in almost every room in the house
The newest over mantels are made Of a com
bination of oak and very highly polishe:
cherry, with a dozen small diamond.shspet
mirrors inserted in them.
Mr. |. NJ. Gaugengigl has attained emf
nence in his art through pictures which
have been seen in Boston and other cities
for the past three years. Every fresh worl
from bis brush makes more manifest the
influence of foreign study. His choice o
subject is most happy; he is thoroughly il
sympathy not only with the subject he Sc
ltcts, but with the public to whom itappealS
For this reason, the fact that he is now en-
Gagged upon painting in the form of 1
Christmas card, to be reproduced by l.
PraDg 4 Co., has an interest for all lovers
| Of art
Fifty years ago MeiSsouiers inimitablt
drawings fetched from l6 to 20 shilling
apiece. What are they worth today? IL
order to finish them be had to spend hal
! rne day in tie "Bibliotheque Rationale" a
Paris, studying Indian engravings, which
! afforded sub jects suited to the taste of tn
dealer whose orders the great French arts
then unknown to fame-was executing
MISSIONER has himself left on record tina
his lunch then consisted Of a raw appletha
his dinner when he could afford one) Q
soup, fried potatoes aud bit of bread. d
could only afford to sleep one night in tive
and in SIX months he claims to having live
n a sum of so francs, or two pounds.
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