The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-25
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Successful Work Being Done by Mas
Culbertson, n Hoosier Girl.
Chicago Chronicle.

Chicago Chronicle.
In the exhibition OF water colors and pas
tells at the art Institute this week there is
a portrait of Miss NJ. +. b. Culbertson. the
bright young Indiana girl who lately SUBJ
mitted a design for the Oliver p. Morton
monument which is TO be erected in INDIAN
apolis Statehouse grounds. Her idea 10 rep
resent the Governor I'm the attitude or well
coming home the victorious soldiers was
highly commended and il is likely that her
design, which was one OF three chosen for
consideration, will be accepted. Miss Gull
cago, but will shortly return to New York.
where she has a studio, in which she de-
votes her time 10 a trinity of artistic pur-
suits. Born in the same county as the ia
nous war Governor of Indiana, she is well
known and greatly beloved by the people OF
her own State. who have watched with In
terest the career Of this talented young
woman Her hrst great success was
achieved a few years ago, when, as a student
had a picture accepted by the salon. None
OF her fellow-students guessed for what she
was working, Her only eonfdant Vas her
the church of Notre Dame and oner up .
prayer that the secret work might not be In
vain. The petition was granted and the
portrait, a strong, tragic face. was hung
on the line" with q few hundred others
chosen from thousands submitted. The
that night to dozens of the artists friends
In the same studio a few years before had
worked the talented Marie Bashkirtsen.
resemble Here also worked contemporary
eously Amelie Rives, author OF the once
much talked of Quick and the Dead"
Shortly after opening her studio I'm New
York Miss Culbertson originated the fad
for modelling hands. which has since be-
come SO popular Her patrons included all
classes, from the stern man OF law and let
tiers TO the young society fiances. anxious TO
give SO original a souvenir to their be-
was Colonel Bob Ingersoll. who was one OF
the jolliest sitters the artist ever had Be-
sides modelling his hands she also made :
bust Of the famous man. TIL hand that
wrote "Ben-Hur' was also cast by Miss
Culbertson and is one of her most cher
Lew Wallace are square tipped. while the
third and fourth fingers are unusually long
and symmetrical. other celebrities, whose
hands have been cast by the young artist,
are Calve. Paul du Chaillu. Susan B. An
thony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Olga
| Nethersole. The best known OF these mod
els Is a cast OF the clasped hands OF Mrs.
Stanton and Susan b. Anthony. taken on
the eightieth anniversary or the FORMER .
birth. No greater contrast could exist than
the hands of these two women. both inter-
ested in the same cause. one being short
and plump. while the other Is long and thin
and full OF nervous energy. Miss Culbert-
son found Nine. Calve her most trouble
some model, as, owing TO the nervous tenn
permanent of the singer. IL was almost I'M
possible to keep her hand sill long enough
to allow the paste to dry. Her extreme i'm
patience caused a crack directly across the
back of the cast. extending to the end OF the
tapering little finger. Miss Culbertson re-
tained this first impression as q souvenir or
the great Garments moods and afterWard
warm friendship exists between Ella Wheel
err Wilcox and the young Indiana artist.
which dates from the day of the forrner'o
first sitting in the New York studio