The Washington times., 1895-05-12

even when heartily interested in the game
she is always on The alert for a tire pose
or a spirited bit of muscular action. to
seize and jot down in her sketch book.
Her work is done almost entirely without
the use of models. She masses and ar
ranges drapery in various ways about her
studio, and then makes a variety of studies
for use in her cartoons. She has a very
novel way OF somet Izes posing for herself,
arranging the drapery on her own figure and
then Eketching herself from mirror.
Some OF her finest work was done for
the Gould Memorial Church at Roxbury,
N Y, for the Church of the Holy Com
muuion, of New York, and for st. Paul's,
Poughkeepsie. The subject depicted in
this last window is the vision OF the angel
appearing to St. Paul at sea. The concep-
ton is entirely original and from its COM
bination OF beauty and strength has elected
the almost unanimous praise of artists and
critics.
Mrs. Charles r. Lamb-or Ella CoEdie
Lamb, as she is better known in the art
world-has but few rivals in the branch of
work to which ahe has devoted most study
the designirs: OF cartoons for stained glass
| windows and mosaic decoration.
She is very quiet, retiring woman, and
indeed did not exhibit her work at all
until after her marriage to Mr.. Lamb, who
is student OF art history as Wei as an artist
| of note.
In speaking of herself, Mrs. Lamb said:
| my first serious work was begun when
| was about sixteen. Then followed years
of digging and ploGding, and, although my
work has been done entirely from love or
art and not professionally, my grounding
was as thorough and my studying as con-
scentious as if the thought of public ap-
| proval had been ever before me.
Since my marriage / have continued
my studies, and my interest in art has
increased rather than diminished. Most
| of my work is now done in collaboration
! with my husband"
In speaking of the payment made to men
| and women for work of equal merit, Mrs.
Lamb said: II t<lIeve it is fast becoming
| the rule to have one established scale
of prices for both sexes. / have found
IN the illustrating work that have done
for such houses as the Century and Harper's
that for each style of work there is a set
price per page, which is never deviated
from except In the case of au artist who is
famous enough to demand special rates,
| but then 1t is question OF genius not sex.
l regard 1t as u mistake" she continued,
! "for women to aim to work exactly
along the same lines as men. do not be-
lieve there is any difference in the quality
of talent possessed by men and women, but
there is marked difference in the char
acter of the talent. Women will do bet
ter work when this is recog gnized."
Mrs. Lesley Bush Brown, the wife Of
the sculptor, has charming little studio
in the artists quarter in Carnegie Hall.
Mrs. Brown is q Philadelphia, and heI
early art education was gained at the
Penns ylvania Art School. Later she
studied in Paris, where for three years
she gave her whole attention to developing
her talent for portrait painting as well
as mural decorations.
Mrs. Brown is a decided brunette, with
masses of dark hair. She is thoroughly in
terested in her art, and has quiet, earnest
way of speaking of her ambitions that is
in delightful contrast with the trashy ''art
for arts sake" talk with which the strdio
air Tesounds nowadays. -
''My time in Paris - Mrs Brown said re-
Gently, was passed in the ateliers oi
Boulanger and Lefebre. 1 have made {
special study of portrait painting, but my
favorite work is mural decoration. These
cartoons on the wall,' Mrs. Brown added
pointing with her mahlstick to series o
lifesize figures adoIning one side of he
studio ''were done for the decoration O
the music room of a private house and were
exhibited in the Womans building at the
Worlds Fair.
MY real studio, the one where I wofl
with my husband, is in the country.
is dear old place." she said, looking af
fectionately at q fine, large photograph
of one corner of her petroom.
1t was a very pretty picture, the wall
hung thick with tapestries, high shell
in German style crowded with fine bas
: reliefs, and for the central feature tn
figure of Mrs Brown seated at her easel
palette and brushes in hand.
Two of the busiest architects in New
York to-day are women, young women, ant
women who have established themselve
well in their profession. They work alonl
the same lines with their professional breth
ren, and receive the same rate of payment
Miss Mary Nevans Cannon and her part
ner, Miss Alice j. Hand, who probabl
constitute the only form of women arch
tects in the United States, are decidedly o
the opinion that they owe their success t
the fact that they offer just as good work {
the public as do men, and that they exac
an equal ratio of payment.
I'VE have acted on this basis from tn