The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-07

of character and varying degree Of con- |
sideration, and they seem to me good places
for young girls especially, to steer clear of, |
but at the same time [ cannot help being |
proud of my countrywomen, they take !
everything with so much dignity. A Russian |
artist was saying to me but yesterday |
They are so very good, these Americans
1.-THE men do not like
THE INTRUSION OF WOMEN
Into the mixed classes, when there are
separate ateliers in which they could work,
as at Colorassi's, where there are two sets
OF studios, those for women, and those for
men in which women are also allowed, be-
cause in these latter there are places for
only SO many, and for every woman who
enters man is thrown out; but l do not
often hear objections urged on any other
ground. for we admire the womens brav-
cry. They cannot get so good instructions
as we can, but they are patient and per-
severing. They say the men are stronger
workers than they are, and so when they
get an opportunity they much prefer to
work with men; it helps them -
In the separate classes of the Academic
Julian the work of women as art students
is ranked high. For seven years, | am
told, the prize SIX etches of the four ateliers
for men and for women have been entered
annually in a competition of the sexes
this being the only opportunity afforded
either to see the work of the other, and
and this year is the first III which the
women have not carried off the palm. A
fuller statement than | had opportunity to
ask Tor of the terms Of the competition or
the departments or classes to which it is
extended might modify this assertion of
feminine success, but the fact lat the
Prlx dc Rome for painting and that for
sculpture have both fallen this year to for
mer students of the Academic Julian indi
Gates that the women have had worthy
foemen.. There are not above couple of
DOZEN AMERICAN GIRLS NOW PAINTING
at Juiian's, but American talent and the
influence of the American woman's steady
straight forward character in the studio is
warmly commended. The work of Nile.
hlumpke, from San Francisco, now of
Paris. who has received mention in the
Salon, of Dora Wheeler, by which name
she is still best known in spite of her re-
cent marriage: OF Rosina Emmett Sher-
wood, OF Mrs. Brewster Sewell, of Miss
Gardner, VINO received medal at the ex-
position, and of other former students
from the United States, Is spoken of with
enthusiasm.
In spite OF the discontinuance of mixed
classes at Julian's there are some of the
professors who still consider them prefer
| able. Benjamin Constant, | understand,
IS more than willing that things should re-
main as they are. To is T. Robert Fleury.
classes are decidedly advantageous to
women. Few of them, he says, are as
strong workers as the better students
among the men. 1t is not good for them
to compare their work exclusively with
that of their own sex. They get on faster
in the broader field.
An American woman well known in New
York and Philadelphia but long resident
in Paris heard the artist arguing to this
effect recently. I'M. Lefebrre,'' said She
may l ask you question:
"Certainly madame" replied the painter
You have daughter, believe!'
"Yes, madame"
"Would you permit her to paint from a
nude model in mixed class."
Certainly not, madame"
THE MIXED CLASSES
are not, as rule, open to visitors, but one
can accomplish much with the help of &C
quaintances and diplomacy. The studio in
the Rue de La Grande Chaumiere, tn rough
which dark, haired, bright eyed girl of not
more than 20 acted as my guide, differed in
few particulars from the atelier for women
In the Passage des Panoramas 1t was
larger, lower ceiied and with scorching
sun blazing through its skylight The
stairway leading to it was narrower and
the stair carpet more frayed. The dais for
the models was longer, for the occasional
accommodations of two at a time. The
walls were more thickly hung with plaster
heads and feet and arms, and in the way of
! properties" there were quantities of faded
| hangings. Like every other atelier have
seen in Paris it was far more dingy ami
battered and careless of comfort than the
not highly ornamented or luxurious work
rooms of the New York Art Students
League
The model was girl, possibly of Is or l6
in the pose of a runner Her loosened hair
had fallen on her shoulders was of a warm
brown, heavy and beautiful; but for the
rest one thought of the individual who saw
Bouguereau at work and thereafter held
him TO possess the liveliest imagination of
all mortals since he could paint such female
charms from such dirty females.
At the further end or the room a group
Of three or four were transferring to can
vass the head and shoulders only of a
peasant boy with an olive skin and shock
of tangled hair. The number of students
at work was not large, the classes not hav-
Ing
FILLED UP FOR THE WINTER.
Six or seven were women. The look of &
studio at this season does not afford rule
by which to judge it when the cold weather
crowds come flocking in but this one was
Boston. The model had fifteen minutes
out of every hour for rest, and in the in.
tervalS there was much lighting of cigar
cites and good-natured discussion and rail
lery, the women drawing apart meanwhile
in little group of their own.
"Ah, but its not like this always" said g
slender dark girl from Kansas City-tive
OF the women at work being Americans
''ln January we almost need the riot act
read sometimes -
1.-The impression prevails in America
that conduct in the mixed atelers some
times borders on the scandalous'i
Eyes were opened in genuine surprise.
ITO work in a class like this is not pleas
ant altogether said one of the young ar
lists who "haS orders and who has exhib
tied in the salon, "but except for rare cpl
sodes it's not worse than the nature Of The
thing makes it; the other students for the
! most part let US alone I've worked bott
in an atelier for women and in mixet
classes, and while this is rather more of ;
nervous strain, learn more and certainll
, with no more scandal.
, Can young women who live by them
selves in Paris get about comfortably?"
GAS TO THAT THE LATIN QUARTER
is much more American in the liberty i
gives US socially than we should find in tn
rest of the city. I've not tried it myself
) but | know of girls who ride about In par
l ties CT three or four on the tops of tn
trans in the evening and get delightful air
ings. Then we have our student clubs an,
) chocolate parties in our rooms and te
dripkings.''
2 '.And nobody molests you when you ar
l so independents
2 'sSome of u.s." put in the youngest of tn,
: girls, who had not thus far spoken
t wouldn't know it if we were molested.
: don't know twenty words of French an
3 it makes the less difference what goes Of