Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-09-02


dos for show. and consequently the visitor
Is impressed with the idea that the owner
Is hard worker. A glance at her studios
and knowledge of her busy professional
life Is a good lesson to those who look upon
women artists as purposeless amateurs.
Like Mrs. Nichols, Miss Agnes d. Abbatt
Is very successful Her studio is In a new
building on Fifth avenue. where many i'm
portant artists live. She Is one of the few
ladies who are members OF the water-Color
Society. Miss Abbatt paints also In oils.
and is especially fond of landscapes. Lately
she has been devoting much time to pastels.
Miss 4. NJ. Scott is also a clever painter
of flowers. She has her studio in East 18th
street. She went to Paris not to study I'M
der any special master. but to work gen.
orally as her taste prompted In schools and
galleries. copying the pictures which most
appealed to her artistic sympathies. and de-
pending upon what she calls the "exhibi-
ton influence"
Mrs. A. Burt confines herself to painting
fruit. which she represents with the utmost
realism. Her pictures are occasionally
found on the walls at exhibitions, but, like
so many others who paint in the less am
bilious lines of art. she sells a great many
more canvases than are ever exhibited
An important ngure in the ladies' Art
Club Is Miss McChesney. figure painter
of unusual power. After four years in San
Francisco she came to New York where she
has been coming more and more into promi-
hence during the past seven years. She has
an intimate knowledge of her art and a
mastery technique IN water color.
She does much excellent work for exhibi-
ton and occasionally visits other countries.
spending three months or so in Holland or
France studying types of figure which are
not to be met with here
On the top floor over the rooms of the
"Salmagundi Club" on 22d street Mrs
Charlotte Whitmore has her studio. The
large square room has skylight with a sort
of pointed gable at one end. This is studio.
workshop and living room all in one being
a sort OF compromise. Writing desk and
easel. sofa and easy chairs. screens abloom
with flowers and many little articles reveal
the sex of the artist. Mrs. " hitmore de-
votes her attention to landscape and is
never so happy as when roaming about the
country in a flannel gown and soft felt hat
carrying foot stool and easel to the spot
which captivates her fancy
Not many doors away from Mrs Whit
more a little studio Is shared by Mrs j.
Francis Murphy and her friend, Miss Boz
dine, who have been associa led for several
years. Their modest canvases are come
times seen in the corners at the spring and
autumn academy exhibitions. Mrs. Murphy
represents country scenes, in which rustic
children figure. and Miss Bodine Is addicted
to water colors in which the fairgrounds
receive the most attention. She :.lso paints
in oils. Both of these ladies' are clever photo
graphers and are able to preserve reproduce
tons of their water colors and paintings
Mrs. Murphy spends her summers In the
Catskills. where she shares her husbands |
studio. charmingly situated half way down |
a mountain slope crowned with thick woods |
A beautiful view is seen from "Weedwili"
the name of this place. and the neighbor- |
hood is especially rich in material for the |
landscape artist.