The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-06
GIRL ARTISTS OF NEW YORK.
THEY LIVE IN A "LATIN QUARTER"
NEAR CENTRAL. PARK.

Famous Names and Hard workers.
Mildred HowelIs, Jessamy Harte,
AIIcgrn EccIeston and Elsie Ciews,
Girl Observation-Disclosures of Army
Generals Choose Art-GIrIs Hire "a
Top Room. Trim IL with Jap Um-
breIIas, Fish Nets ana Divans and
IL Is a studio.
Copyright, 1885,
New York, Sept Alike Rip Van Win
kle, after his long sleep. the art student
quarter of New York city is slowly awak-
ing to consciousness. The league opens its
doors in October. Those of the students
who have not been away are shaking their
rugs out of the window and polishing up
their daubed pallets. Others who have
been potboiling in the mountains and along
shore are returning with vast amount
of local color in their valises. and the few
who have summered in Europe are getting
back with much hustle and preparation for
the prosperous season which is pretty sure
to follow summer ION the other side"
few of the art students there who are
not troubled by the thought of room rent
and pot-boiling, but as a class the great
artists colony of New York struggles be-
tween paint and bread and butter, and hes
itates between new canvass and a pair
of shoes.
All who wish may come to New York
and join the art colony. If there is money
behind the attempt, the student can live
in New York for years Studying" She
can join the artists clubs and become
member of artistic society. She can know
all the clever artist folk of the city and
can write home glorious letters of my
friend, the celebrated Mrs. This" and my
friend, the celebrated Mrs. That" But I'M
less there is talent behind, the artist will
return home in due time without ever hav-
ing made mark upon the world of art. In
no profession is real merit so recogniza-
BILE. 1t is a case of the survival of the fittest
without delay. One good stroke makes the
name and all else follows a close second.
The ranks of women art students are
enriched by the addition of young wo-
men who start upon the work with a
name that has already been recognized.
These celebrities" are highly valued in
any art class. They make acquaintances
and introduce them to the world of art
| and letters, and they are able in other
ways to act as medium of intercourse
with the world. To know them is an
| open sesame to general acquaintance.
If they are generous hearted they intro
duce freely, and the obscure but talented
art student gets acquainted with pur-
chasers and patrons
Mildred Howells, daughter of William
Dean Howelis, is a clever art student of
Gotham. Perhaps it should be said that
| she is a recognized artist of the whole
world. But the artists have a way of
clinging to the title Student" long after
they can work independently.
Miss Howells has her studio in the very
heart of the art students colony. The
Colony Is that section of the city ex-
tending across the whole width of Central
! Park and down town as far as Fiftieth
street. The art league is in the center
and the students group around it. 1t is
the Latin quarter of New York.
Miss Howells has a studio in her father 5
apartments facing Central Park. She
works daily with her Brushes, for artists
! her profession as literature is her faith
er's. Miss Howells, after a long course
! of study in Paris, Rome and London
began by illustrating her fathers poems
Her tail-pieces attracted attention. and
the cleverness with which she caught the
conception of the work made friends for
her with writer's All artists cannot get
| the tone of the work they Illustrate
even while they draw well. Miss How
ellis work appears regularly in the high
est class magazines, and she has settled
down to the profession of regular illus~
tratve work. 40
Another of the girl artists of New York
who bears an introductory name is Allie
! gra Eccleston, daughter of Edward Ec-
cleston. Miss Eccleston," said an Of
! hcer of the art league, fought not to
be called a student now, though she still
studies. She is a professional"
Her speciality Is children's faces. These
She does with much delicacy, making
them young, sweet and dimpled. She was
the first artist who ever had the courage
to put q pug nose upon a chld's face
though all children's noses are pug. Be
sides drawing in line work, which is Miss
Eccleston's speciality, she carves exquisite
| ly. When she was a little girl she cary
ed an idol out of rotten piece of
wood. Her father saw 1t and was inn
pressed with the correctness of, the lines,
for the child had exactly copied an idol
in the Metropolitan Museum. and he told
her TO keep on At 10 her instruction in
art began.
George Cables daughter is another Of
the daughters of literary fathers who
have worked successfully with the brush.
| Though married now, this young wom-
an is a girl artist" embellishing her
fathers writings and successfully contrib
uting to the magazines. Her best work
| is in the character sketches which her
father describes so graphically. She says
| she secs them while he reads"
The peculiarly quiet, studious disposi-
| ton OF professional men pervades, with
| the touch of heredity, the minds Of the
daughters. Daughters of lawyers, clergy
men and the girls Of army officers turn
to art and want to study it., They DO
not ask for reserved seats in the arr
| classes, but are content to fall In line
with the rest and wait for talent 70
bring them forward.
One OF these girls who took a course
| at the art league, working hard at the
cubes and fruit pieces then at the figure
casts, was Elsie Clews, daughter Of
Henry CHews, the banker. Miss Clews-
best work lay in her outdoor sketches.
| Her desire was TO paint landscape, ana
she did it so well that the students
crowded around her easel, as they will
around anything good, and freely adj
mired. Art students are peculiar in one
respect. They are apparently untutored
/ in worldliness, and neglect to the poilt
| OF scorn a student who shows no ability
/ for art. stt
| nice Mary Flower niece NJ axf.ov