The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-08

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studio at S37 Fourth avenue, New York,
abounds in studies of every flower that
blooms, and makes most attractive spot
Tor Visitors when thrown open, often
happens, In hospitable fashion for Saturday
afternoon receptions. Its furnishings are
simple, couches. rugs and quaint bric-a-
Drac, with studies in oil and water color
hlllng every available inch of room.
Miss Abbatt was born in New York city
and studied at Cooper Institute, at the Ma
uonal Academy, under James ID. Smillie
and X. Swain Clifford. She was longest
with Smile, and his Influence is probably
strongest IN her paintings. She first ex-
nl6ited IN 1876 at the American Water
Color Society's exhibition, and has received
medals from Cooper Institute and from the
Massachusetts, charitable mechanic ex-
hlbition. She now exhibits regularly at the
National Academy, and her ''Harbor Road,
New London" now on view, is a pleasing
expression of nature painted with sincerity
and feeling.
Miss Abbatt spends part of every sum-
mer at the family homestead in the country,
and there she has an old-fashioned garden
where she coaxes into blossom a wilderness
OF old-fashioned flowers. An arbor over
grown with vines, tangle of tall holly
| hocks and 'sunfiowers, a mass of blackberry
bushes covered with fruit in ali stages of
greenness and ripeness, these are subjects
| such as she delights in. She has holly
| hook picture now at the academy. She
paints naSturtiums against a background
| of blue brocade, bachelors buttons In an old
brown jug, bluebells, and for all her flower
| pictures she finds odd titles. "New Wine
In Old Bottles" for bunch Of jonquils and
narcissus in curacao bottle was. / remem-
Der, name which puzzled the critics while
| ago. Miss Abbatt is perhaps the painter of
| chrysanthemums
4 Much nf har IoDdeoapo uUorIx bau hoor,
sketched off the Massachusetts coast near
| Magnolia, and shows the characteristic
| rocky scenery. Some of her pictures of
| shore scenes-the line of sand, the breakers
and tree or two, are full of quiet charm
and exceedingly interesting.
| Few New York artists are better known
| than Miss Dora Wheeler, whose reputation
| is based partly on her gifts in decorative
design, some of the tapestry panels designed
| by her and exhibited in London last spring
/ having created much enthusiasm, and
partly on her portrait and genre work.
William M. Chase and Bouguereau have
been her masters Walter Besant, James
| Russell Lowell, John Burroughs, Thomas
! Bailey Aldrich, Walt Whitman, Austin
| Dobson. Charles Dudley Warner and other
literary men almost equally as well known
| have been among her sitters. Twill o. the
| Wisp" and "Blackberrying" have been
| among her academy pictures Her studio is
| one of the most delightful places in the city
and happy are those who have the entree.
Another prominent artist is Rosina En-
met, who, by marrying a son of Mrs. John
Sherwood, became Rosina Emmett Sher-
| wood year or two ago. Miss Emmett
took the first prize in Prang's Christmas
card competition in 1879, aud afterwood
studied art under William NJ. Chase. She
| has illustrated several books, 'Old Fashion
Tales, by Mrs. Burton Harrison. being of
the number. "a Nymph of Hymen" aud
| "a Portrait of Lady, were noteworthy
pictures shown by her last spring.
| Letitia B. Hart who showed 1.-THE Art
Amateur" symphony in yellow, at the
| Fifth avenue galleries few weeks ago, is a
woman who pursues her art from love of it,
seriously and conscientiously. Maria j. G.
a-Becket has an attractive studio in the
Sherwood building and is busy this fall
with one of her favorite wood interiors
with large birch in the foreground. A
Landscape" and an Edge Of the Wood"
which she has shown recently, were both
excellent pieces of workmanship
Mrs. Charlotte B. Conan is a strong and
simple landscape painter who is also of the
Sherwood building artist colony, and who
exhibits regularly at the academy. Another
landscape painter of ability is Miss S. NJ.
Barstow, of Brooklyn, who excels in warm
rich tones. Eleanor G. Bannister has signed
her name to some notably strong bit of
color harmony, and paints flesh to look as if
it were real. Adah G. Murphy, the wife of
j. Francis Murphy, paints quiet country
scenes that are full of subtle charm. 1.-THE
Pride of the Yard" which is one of her re-
cent pictures, is a quaint garden with an
old house, gnarled apple tree and wealth
of scarlet pink and crimson hollyhocks
She has shown TWO water colors this fall,
IA Bit of Country" and IAN Old Farm
House" which take high rank among all
competitors
Rhoda Holmes Nichols is another woman
artist who comes to us from across the seas
The was born in Coventry, England, and
received the queens scholarship in the
Bloomsbury School of Art, London. She
has studied in the Circoio ArtiStico in
Rome and in Venice, and some of her most
notable pictures are sunllt effects in the city
of the Doges, with gondola stands against
white walls, and gondoliers resting. Mrs
Nichols is the wife of Burr H. Nichols, the
artist. Her work is exceptionally vigorous,
both IN oil and water colors, and of quail
lty to add luster to any exhibition.
Frances Eliot Clifford is another artist who
married an artist. Her husband is r.
Swain Clifford, and sometimes they work
in collaboration. Mrs Gifford's speciality
is birds, and 1.-THE Home of the Sheldrake"
shows their joint labor, the wife painting
the wild fowl and the husband putting in
are Of a very pleasing quality and good in
color. Louis G. Tiffany, Noah Brooks and
others have bought them.
What list of artists wives l am getting.
Mrs. Thomas Moran was her husbands
pupil before she married him. She is an
| exceptionally vigorous etcher. Mrs. Frank
Fowler paints, and so does Helen G. Hoven-
den, the wife of Thomas Hovenden, whose
SIN the Hands of the Enemy" won so much
praise last spring. Mrs. Hovenden, like
her husband, paints figures and also ami
mails. Mr. and Mrs. George II. Smile
| must be added to the list of artist couples
Mrs Smile is one of the best flower
| painters in the country.
Among the younger artists there are
women who show great promise. One of
| these is the daughter of William J. Evans
| She is one of the prize winners of the
| Academy of Design schools. The residence
| of Mr.. Evans in Jersey City is one of the
| richest storehouses of art in America.
Another young painter is Miss Anna Laura
| Morgan. daughter of William Morgan, the
| artist. She has exhibited in the academy,
| and one of her pictures is in the Kneeland
collection in Brooklyn. 1t is a fruit piece
| rich in color, as are all her paintings, which
show great ability.
Miss Josephine Jessup is a promising
| artist who has studio up under the
roof in the Windermere. 1t is on the roof
in one sense, for the top story, a very low