Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-11-22
ROSA BONHEURs OF THE FUTURE.
our Girls Becoming Fine Artists
Enthusiasm over Their Work
summer Skctching.

Tho young women art students of
This town have been focking home
from mountain and lakeside sketching
tours. their portfolios filed with new
and original "studies." A troupe of
Them seen entering Artist Carl Heck.
er' studio and art school caused Mail
md Express reporter to follow the
happy crowd within and ask Prof.
Hecker how New York girls were get
ting along in their art work. He said
they were improving in marked de-
gree every year. They do better work
Than formly. they study harder and
they learn more rapidly. With year. :
study. and often less. many become
proficient enough to teach, and do so
while still persuing their studies. The
Rges of young women students average
from Is to "a or 26. and, as II rule.
they are enthusiastic workers. The
Professor said the hour for closing his
school was 4 o clock. but it is hard
work to get the students away at 3.
They are made to study the antique
first and then are given orig nal st H.
life studies to paint Several OF the
latter were pointed out One, which
fourteen young women were painting,
was quite difficult. 1t consisted of a
collection OF articles on a table, among
which were II blue china wine bowl the
shape of Il key, and ornamented with
iiguYes, in front of which stood an
empty champagne bottle and cham
payne glass. alongside was silver
salver on which were an
overturned silver goblet, a pipe
and a half-smoked cigar, and a
shell ash receiver. Back of all were
some green leaves. The object of
the study was to cause to have have
produced the surface of the different
materials of which the art Giles were
composed, as, glass. silver. the table
drapery. the blue china. Other stud es
in still-llie were an overturned basket
of peaches, a string of crabapples
and branch, Il collect on of fruit on q
silver platter, IA section OF wall on
which were hanging Il violin and bow,
piece of sheet music and n faded rose.
Man of the paintings of these studies
are done so well, Prof. Hecker SAID,
that they are salable at once. being
worth from S25 and $50 to SO and
$lGO each. One of the students is
now painting portrait at the school
for which she is to receive 500.
Among theyoung students who promise
to become noted are Miss Scott,
of Yonkers, Miss Watson. of Texas,
who intends to establish an art school
in her state; Miss Borgmair, Miss
Mount. Mss Doscher and Miss Bruce.
They are all doing excellent work of
/ n al l. a
an Academy exhibition.
Asked regarding their earnings with
the brush Prof Hecker said that the
New York girls who take lessons with
IN idea of earning livelihood in art
generally succeed. OF the graduates
most Of them occupy positions in
schools. others are earning good sal
nries decorating, others are portrait
painters, and many have classes OF
their own of from six to twenty
pupils. Two or three of the present
pupils have developed such a talent
for portrait painting that they earned
,evera hundred dollars each IN the last
year.
OF the delights of the summer
sketching tours the young women
never tire of talking. Picturesque
spots along the Huson or in the
Orange mountains are selected and
different views selected to be drawn or
painted. One of the trips was to
7illage in tine mountains overlooking
the "Tappan Zee" 1t is told of the
trip that the eager students were TO o
seen at work at sunrise and earlier
striving to get ahead of each other for
an exhibition at breakfast time of
sketches of the sunrise, and that on
starry nights they might be seen study.
ing the effects of the moon and STAR
light on mountains and river, aud in
one instance the ''wee sma' hours
saw an interior sketch completed by
the lights of candle artistcally
arranged in an empty paint bottle.
The neighboring mountain proved an
/ attractive spot for excursions. and
! three or four days week parties could
/ be seen snugly ensconsed in some
/ picturesque spot earnestly at work
! painting the scene before them. A
| Iavorite spot with all was cottage
/ high up on tho mountain side and lying
| sheltered between gigantic mounta II
! tops. From there magnificent view
| of the Hudson as far as Yonkers was
/ lNNl ia OilS hIOClIOug anu III lUO
opposite range after range of mount
Ans.
What / not ced particularly" said
| Prof. Hecker. Els II growing intelli-
gence in the young women. There is
certainly more talent among those of
! this country than those of Europe. aud
all that is needed is to bring It out. /
am proud of the girls. they are so
earnest, so enthusiastic and so faith
ful. They are more ambitious than
the young men, and they work harder;
and an American girl has really
ambition. She will work hard and
study hard. and what is more. she
succeeds. Many daughters of million
aires start in the study because it is
the thing, but it is interesting to see
how after few lessons they learn 10
value diamonds less and nature more
and become rs earnest workers as the
others"
Is This Foreign Contract Labor?
Some puzzling compl cations con.