The morning news., 1889-02-05
WOMEN AS ART STUDENTS
ooo MAIDENs GRAsPING FOR
I'' GOLD AND GLORY.

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,-+s succeed as Well as Men.
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~vu, YORK. Feb. Woman is becom-
+ha most practical of created beings
--f. ln= aossibilities Of money earning, which
recantJy have dawned on her, absorb
V--' '4houohts There is nothing which in
l.,s+s her more than new money-making
Y.,,,,a4jon. nothing which endears an ac-
salisbment TO her so much as the sugges-
.;o, that-for bread and butter, or quite as
I;yeIv for pin money and her charities
go NAV be cash in it some day. Ii she
.,a wife or daughter of millionaire she
1HorId not surprise you by the conf esslon
,,nt her palms itched for the dollar bill
.Lbicb she herself had earned. The ring OF
';i--or her very own silver, intoxlcates her.
sii' M fLonorable, financial independence is the
latbv m which she puts whip and spur.
~ NOT know how otherwise to account
g.. the tnrn which the efforts of women in
~ ore taking. Bohemia has never had tie
.a4,Ttation of cherishing a green back
iSaoi The bright-eyed western girl, with
so,,I fnll of romance, who comes to New
TorI eager to breathe the atmosphere OF
;+s art colony, who chews her crust with
n.+bnsiasm and climbs with pious joy her
-orret StalTS-lD DldIH - ulbo1 toCdlSos SloOpo
e~ tbe soft side Of a drawing board in the
% unrv dingy studio which $40 month hires
Eor her Somewhere between Fourteenth
,ereat and Twenty third may die Of starva-
zion as one did no long time ago, while
draaming of the days when she shall ex
bibit IN the Salon or the Academy but the
large majority of women art students do
not love fame less, but a comfortable In
come honestly earned, at a congenial bust
SOAN~' a apnpcrh thnnub
ort has never been supposed to suffer from
any superfuity of encouragement in this
conntry. they make money out of it quite
ss easily as men; some artists say m IRE
There are not less than 1, 800 women, pro-
bably 600 would be nearer the mark, who
are regularly enrolled as art students in this
citv. They average "A or 25 years old. They
represent every state in the union, most of
the Territories, Canada, Mexico and South
America. and one soft-eyed girl with olive
akin and dusky hair, whose name will be
heard of some day, comes from japan.
Some of them have studied in Paris, some
have had pictures well hung but most of
them have their futures entirely before
them. Taken together, they are far and
awavAhe largest and the brightest colony
of New York's independent girls. Taken
together, s. far as they give any indication
of the coming work of women in art, they
point to the departments which can be made
to yield shekels.
There is the Ladies' Art Association,
which twenty years ago made the first col
lection of the works of American women
PAINTERS and established the first life hool
for women.
What is it doing? 1t is practical from
the first drawing from the antique to the
lastsketch from the nude. In 1872 it gave
the first free instruction in arts as applied
to manufactures. The first prize of 500
for an original wall paper design offered by
manufacturer was given through it and
was taken by a woman who was one of its
members 1t founded the first permanent
instruction for women in painting on porce-
lain and china. 1t gave the first exhibition
of American potteries in 1880. 1t gave the
first technical instruction ever offered to
women in New York state in carpet de.
signing. 1t has founded technical classes
for reproductive pen and ink drawing, for
training women as wood carvers, workers
in gold and silver, copper and brass model
ers in clay. 1t has kept before it one idea,
that of turning the art revival in this coun-
try to advantage in opening avenues of
profitable employment for women artists.
Visit lis studios any one of these brilliant
winter afternoons ard you will fl d girls
with halos of pale gold hair painting tap
eStries for palaces up town, studying the
principles of design as applied to decoration
house decorators and artistic furnishers
these mean to be-modeling or cast
ing in plaster-they don't scorn to design
such thing for instance as an art stove-de-
signing point lace, studying engraving, etch-
ing and hthography or painting portraits,
there's always money for a successful por-
trait painter. The craze for newspaper il
luslraIon has not passed Unheeded, and
many clever cut in the Sunday papers is
sketched by women artists taught in its
rooms. Alice Donlevy, Nine. Potin,
Marsha Guttmann and other artists of re-
pute are on its list of instructors. Verest-
chagln gave it money. Mrs. Vincenza
Bottl, the art critic, is among its fast
friends, and Mrs. Cleveland is an honorary
member
DO the women who go out from here sue
coed fnanciallyF | asked Alice Donlevy,
while watching a turnip, carrot and some
sprgs of celery grow under the hand Of
brown-eyed butterfly of a girl into life
likeness and edibility
Succeeds Yes; the only difficulty is that
the call for artists all over the country in
every department Of industrial and educa-
uonal art is SO constant that women won't
study long enough to be fit for the best
success
There are nearly 300 women studying at
lhe Cooper Union Free Woman's Art School.
Nnat becomes of your graduatesP
aSked Mrs. Carter, its principal.
=, One-thlrd of them marry, one-third of
lnem teach drawing. One-third of them be-
come professional artists" was the reply.
y vacancy is something unheard Of
Names are booked for its classes two years,
turee years, sometimes five years in ad-
vance What does that mean2 Since no
e'uueht is admitted who cannot furnish a
WIltten guarantee that she is unable to pay
ior il instruction and is obliged to earn her own
wing II follows that women believe that
- art even In America, there are livings
vi last years graduates one is furnishing
ue"ghs ior stained glass to firm in Chica-
-, one mas steady employment at adapting
.ue patterns IN India rugs to the American
markets, one is designer and draughtsman n
silver manufacturing company in
ueIiuen' earning a large sala Y: six are
!, "a CAAlng as engravers in New York, three
Cu'cago and one in Charleston; one the
VI ~ VI college professor. is illustrating
tbo ,.u u,raWlngs aud engravings Of her own
; ~ CieuJlhc works of her husband. treat
ts Iue varied anG delicate subject of en-
cou ogy with force and refinement which
. .o,ues OF thorough love of art. Ye
a., a,i.e raduate has gone into partnership
'4uai terms with two engravers of the
dpp1sIoe sex. Others are making large
c1iisiils ans Tor the classes at the Industrial
il, ,ese, getting up "Womans Exchanges"
Tsest' ~ west selling wall paper designs, &c
for NO are those Of course who cling TO art
TN SAKE without regard to cash re-
coiae mrs Morey, who had two water
tinr studies OF dogs in the spring exhibit