The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-20
TALENTEDY0UNG WOMEN
PRODUCING BEAUTIFUL sTArUEs
FOR THE WORLDS FAIR

IN Europe-Sn Is q Beauty OF tie
Black-haired, Black eyed Type-Eiss
Rideout and Her Wcrk-Mr. Taft, Mr.
Mears and Others.
From the Baltimore Netrs.
CHICAGO, jan 4.-Whsn the centennial
exposition IN Philadelphia was over, hslf
the women in the United States were talk
ing OF the butter bust and the remarkable
woman who could make it It will be a
revelation TO this generation to see that
some Of the characteristic work in sculpture
at the worlds fair has been done by
women, not only as exhibitors, but as
actual creators OF parts of the buildings
which are already famous as jewels of
architecture. The first woman on the
ground, and the pioneer who blazed the
pathway for her sisters, was Miss Yandell
OF Kentucky. When the won ans building
WAS contemplated. Mrs. Palmer wanted it
il to be designed and decorated by women.
lt was with difficulty that women could
be found who would take the responsibility
Miss Yandell has the intrepid spirit of a
true Kentuckian. She comes OF a race that
has always held up its head and
walked boldly. When they sent for
her she came at once. made the pedi
ment for the womans building, and
her sculpture was the first in place on the
ground. Miss Yandell is % years old, and
has boon studying sculpture in one fashion
or another ever since she studied anyI hing.
Her father, DIR. Yaudell OF Louisville,
would prob ably have been a great sculptor
had he not been physician. He has always
had the taste for art and for modelling aud
encouraged the earliest signs Of 1t In his
daughter. Mrs. Yandell 10 a copyist, who
! has done some very good work of that sort.
So co. -
somsthlng." Miss Ysndell said In speaking
| OF hers. "You remember the bull said TO
the boy: You'd DO as big as am maybe
| il your parents had been as carefully Sc
lected.'" After leaving school DIR. Yandell
sent his daughter TO the Art academy in
Cincinnati, where she took the 4-year
| course In two years. And took an honor
medal She was then taken to Europe to
look about. She went from one studio to
another, always gladly received. watching
| the different men work in their different
ways, and taking 9 hand now and then.
After her return to Louisville she did
| considerable work for the local architects
in the way of interior decoration. While
in Cincinnati she had taken lessons In wood
carving to obtain dexterity in the use OF
cutting tools, marble being too expensive to
use for practive. For the Filson Club, a
| historical society in Louisville, she made
two figures Of Boone and Clark, finding
| Special pleasure III WORKING Oub Ll9 pioneer
| costumes and the pioneer nature. She did
large gargoyle, which was so good that
she was advised to turn her talent toward
| the grotesque, but she has wisely concluded
that she is too young to take up a speciality
until speciality takes her up.
Since she has finished her own work Mar
| tint has taken her into his studio as a paid
assistant. Miss Yandell is much prouder of
| this titan Of her pedlment, fully realizing
that having worked for Martini for six
| mouths will open any studio door for her
when she goes abroad next year.
She sits aloft on q scaffolding in Martini's
studio, clad In corduroy gown and muddy
apron. aad deftly puts life and emotion into
J brown Jumps of clay. Miss Yandell is
beauty of the block-eyed, black-haired, fine
| figured Kentucky type. She hal ridden and
driven, and rowed and skated and used tools
until every muscle is fully developed, aud
she looks as though she might be model
for one of the statues. But she isn't con-
tent with this variety of accomplishments.
When she first came Miss Long borough, the
architect of the woman's building, and Miss
| Hayes, Mrs. Pelmer's secretary, were also
| new co Chicago, and the three girls took q
fat and kept house. Their experiences they
have told in a little book: Three Girls In a
Flat" which has been an i'm
carrying 1t about TO publishers, they
concluded 20 publish It themselves. They
bought their paper from she wholesale
house and engaged artists to illustrate il,
and they gained knowledge and experience
| as they went along. Ii would cost 81, 500
20 get out the first edition. They went
| about and solicited 81 200 worth of advsr-
Using, which they put in the back about
SIX leaves and the expenses were paid be-
| fore the book was fairly on the market.
| There Is one chapter written by Miss Yam
dell which Mrs. Margaret Sullivan. who il
| the best paid editorial writer In Chicago
says is as good as Richard Harding Davis
at his best. There Is one thing very sure,
| Richard Harding Davis will never find
Martini ready to pay him $40 day to be
| his assistant.
Miss Rideout, who did the group for the
woman's building, is the other woman sculp-
tor who was engaged by the worlds fair
| proper. The commission was won through
| competition, a number of sculptresees send
ing models. Miss Ridouet is a small, quiet
| girl. only 10 years old. She has only had
| one tutor, Mr.. Smith OF San Frsucisco The
story goes that Miss Rideout went into Mr.
Smiths studio one day during his absence
with big dog. The dog knocked down the
clay bust on the stand. and when Mr.. Smith
returned he found that the dogs mistress
was trying 70 remedy matters, and deipg it
so successfully that it was amazing. He
offered TO give her lessons, and the result is
| on she woman's building. Miss Rideout has
returned to her home in San Francisco,
carrying sufficient sum TO give her the
year In Europe she covets.
Mr.. Taft. who has charge Of the work
that is being done for some of the state
buildings, says that all the young ladies In
bis studio are % years old, and they are all
going to Europe next year. There is one
exception.
Miss Nellie Mears Is a very young girl
from Oshkosh, Wis. Her eldest sister,
Louise Mears, is an illustrator who received
her tuition in drawing from the monthly
magazines which happened to come in her
way. Her latest work is seen in Ella
Wheeler Wilcox's "Land Of Nod" The
younger sister had never seen a statue, had
never seen any one mold clay, bad never
seen any real modelling clay when she
was given a commission for a heroic marble
figure for the Wisconsin building. She can
hardly be- 20 years old, and she looks as
though she had lived every one Of those
years where cowslips grew and COWS were
MIXED. Her complexion is Of the rudy
country, and her shy. loug-lsshed eyes have
the look Of never hev! & reflected anything
SO mundane as sculptors mud. They
haven't. She has only seen the ideal form
sue was trying to bring out Of il. She says
she has made ''materialn out OF everything
soft that came / her way. She nodded her
bread when che was baby. After awhile
she got some sort Of tools and worked.