The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-30

WOOD lattice WORK, jungle IDOLS, beaten
copper vases, heavy purdahs with heavier
fringes, Moorish soldiers saddles and other
samples of native industry from tropical
climes adorn every bit of available space
not occupied by pictures On a screen
hangs a rich costume of gold brocade which
once belonged to the rajah of Benares.
In corner of the studio are a series of
studies of some of the race types of India.
"A Brahmin, with lowering brow; wretch
eddy lean Hindoo with that peculiar violet
blue skin which comes of old age; a fierce
Belouchi, and a splendid sample of the
youthful Afghan. Mr.. Weeks himself
looks like an oriental, with his black
beard and mustache, his sparrowhawk
nose and his dark skin, the result of long
exposure to q tropical sun.
Miss Elizabeth Gardner is native Of
Exeter, N. h, and a graduate of Laselle
seminary. Her studio, pPettily hung with
pictures and fine old Gobelin tapestry, is
at 20 Rue Notre Dame des Champs She
came TO Paris twenty-five years ago, when
the difficulties in the way of the serious
study of art for young woman were al
most inSIrmountable. She met with en-
lcouragement from the family of Rosa Bon
iheur, whose sister is still her best friend
she studied for several years at the Julien
academy under Bouguereau and Lefebvre
Her favoTite subjects are women and chill
dren, and she has been a successful con-
tributof to the Paris exhibitions for twenty
odd years. In 1887 she received Salon
medal, the first ever awarded in Paris to
= an American woman Every corner of the
pretty studio where she works is taken up
with choice samples of carved oak furni-
ture; the door is StHewed with the skins of
wild animals, and the stars and stripes,
which, displayed at the window, defended
her door from aggression during the try
ing days of the Commune, may still be
seen, tattered and torn.
Frederick A Bridgnan inhabits hotel
on the Boulevard Malesherbes, with a
large studio Just behind it, separated from
the house by pretty garden. Both house
land studio are full of oriental curiosities-
gold embroidered stuffs, thick piled rugs,
1ewelry in dead gold and dull tinted beads,
stained glass windows, divans, oak panel
ings, quaint fantastic jars crockery, plates
and weapons, clay images, ornamented
pipes, oak sideboards black with age, and
what not? He is a southerner by birth
born at TuskeGee, Ala, in 1S47-and has
spent two winters in Algiers, a year in
Egypt, Nubia and along the Nile. The ma
terial which he gathered in these regions
furnished him with subjects for the many
paintings SO well known today to art col
lectors. In October, last year, he opened a
class of painting for ladies, which is well
attended
Miss l. Lee Robbins is young lady of
twenty-tive, who paints in a huge studio, at
81 Rue d'Assas, overlooking the Luxem-
lbourg garden. She has been in Paris nearly
all her life, having come over to France
from New York when eighteen months old
Her sound artistic education cost her ten
years of unremitting labor in the schools
OF Csroius Duran and Jean Jacques Hen
ner. The bare sight of her studio with its
brown walls and vast size, unrelieved by
any of those gorgeous knicknacks so dear
80 the heart of most artists, shows that
much sober work is done there.
Henry MoSler's studio is at No. Is Rue
de Washington, just Off the broad Avenue
des Champs EiyseeS. lt is spacious and
well lighted, its chief ornament being some
antique Breton furniture in dark carved
oak wood, very quaint and picturesque in
style. Breton costumes and sketches of
Breton scenery are visible on all sides. Mr.
Mosler is pupil OF the well known French
painter. Z. Hebert. After working for
some time at Dusseldorf and at Munich.
be finally settled in Paris, and since 1878
has been al annual exhibitor at the Paris /
salon. Mr.. Mosler opened last year an art /
class for ladies, and Is at present organic /
sng party of his pupils TO set out in June 4
on an artistic pilgrimage to Quimperle, one (
OF the most picturesque towns in Brittany. I
a country which is the delight OF artists.
l1r. MoSler Is married and has five chill /
dren, one Of whom, his boy Gustave, aged 4
Eixteen, bids fair 10 rival his father in the /
art Of welding a successful brush
u. y Truesdel a native of Waukegan. |
nesr Chicago, began his study of art at the |
Art academy, Philadelphia, in 1878 and /
worked there during three winters Mr. 1
Iruesdeil paints all his pictures from nat
nre, and spends about SIX months of the
year IN the country. He is now at Ecouen.
a lew miles from Paris. where be has
passed the winter and painted his Salon
picture, sheep and Shepherdess." He has
several portraits 10 paint in French and
SAmer1can families in Paris
| fefer a Gross who has his studio st
a1ae Duperre. was thrown on his own re-
sources at the Az of sixteen and began the
struggle Tor hle-n6w working in a saw
mili, now driving a lumber tram or teach
ing ID a school he was led into artistic
pursuits by chance. His first envoi TO the
oalon was accepted and well placed. This
WIS 10 1913. The picture represented the
Bank 1*ot the Marne," and now hangs
IN the academy OF PHILADELPHIA. The wear
following he contributed Mare Riuarfl -
q water effect, now owned by the Cor-,e de
Moustier- de has since steadily advanced
M public favor. aud bids fair 10 become