Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-09-09
Women Seulptors.

They are Making Progress and Many Have
Won Distinction.
That American women are making
commendable progress in sculpture
and the other fine arts is evidenced at
many points where their fine compost
tions have been submitted to public
view, says the New York Mail and Ex-
press.
The first woman sculptor who attain
ed national distinction was, perhaps,
Miss Winnie Ream. Her claim to fame,
however. was based upon the fact of
her being the first woman sculptor,
and not upon the excellence of her
work.
The first exhibition of high talent
was made by the Western artist who
received the nickname of 1.-THE Butter
Woman" from her famous model in
that article of the Sleeping Iolanthe. y
which was exhibited at the Philadel-
phia Centennial.
Along with her may be mentioned
Harriet Hosmer, who is undoubtedly
the most finished and technically the
best woman sculptor of the present
century.
In the past twenty years large
number of others have come into no
tice, and more especially in the present
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decade. The fostering influences of
our great fairs, and more particularly
those of Chicago, Atlanta and Nash
vile. seem to have aided greatly this
form of art development.
| Among the new lights in this are
Miss Carrie Brooks. of Chicago, whose
portrait busts have received the high
est praise for their accuracy and poetic
treatment; Miss Bessie Potter, of st.
Louis, has won recognition by a num-
Der of very capable pieces.
| Her best work was the statuette oil
"The Summer Girl" her bust of Prof
David Swing and her half length relief
portrait of the actress, Julia Marlowe
Miss Enid Yandell, of Tennessee, has
made success by her work, which has
developed into a positive future in
Tennessee and Kentucky.
Her latest and largest, if not hel
greatest, construction, is the statue OF
colossal size standing before the art
building in the Centennial Exposition
Miss Julia Bracken. of Chicago. came
into prominence within the past five
years. Her best known labor is bust
of the late j. w. Scott. editor of the
Chicago Times Herald. Another group
has some bright stars.
Miss Levy, of Philadelphia. develop
ed remarkable talent for modelling in
that city, and crossed the ocean to
Paris to secure thorough professional
education. She has succeeded in a
way that has pleased her friends un.
speakably.
Her work has been exhibited in the
Salon, and come of her creations have
been purchased for famous galleries.
In far-off Italy talented Afro-Ame-
rican woman has won fame and mod
crate fortune, in the person of Miss
Lewis, who settled there many years
ago to pursue her studies, and who il
now recognized as leader in her field
of work.
Miss Janet Scudder. of Chicago
promises to have very brilliant fu.
ture. She possesses the rare knack ol
expressing poetic ideals, moods and
emotions in clay.
Her best work thus far was an ex.
quisite statue in the Indiana building
at the Worlds Fair, entitled 1.-The
Nymph." Miss Agnes Pitman, of Gin
cinnati, daughter of the distinguish ed
artist, and niece of the great founder
of stenography, obtained celebrity al
the Centennial by her wonderful work.
Since that period she has modelled
as well as carved, and is now recogniz
ed as good all round master of expres
sion in artistic form.
Miss Zuline Taft, of Kansas, is an
other young woman of whom great re-
suits are expected. She was employed
upon the artistic decoration of the Co
lumbian Exposition, and executed hel
work with rare skill and deep feeling
At present she is studying in Paris