The age-herald., 1901-10-09
w and SOCIETY
Collection of Paintings.

The collection of paintings water colors and black and white drawings. exhibited by Miss Edna Smith and Miss Stella Rob- ertson at the formal opening of their School of Art this week would do credit to much older and experienced artists. and these ambitious young women de serve all the congratulations they are receiving.
 The formal opening of the School of Art was pronounced success and the studios in the Watts building have been thronged with the friends of the young artists.
 The two large studios were thrown to- gether and the pictures were hung in 8. fine light. The bare space on the walls were hung with handsome draperies and palms here and there added to the luxu- rious effect
 The studios are delightful, big, sunny and attractive but the two charming girls who own them monopolized much of the admiration bestowed upon their work.
 Miss Smiths Salon picture, a portrait of her mother, attracted the greatest att tention. It is superbly done, and was painted when Miss Smith was in the
  several copies made in the Louvre, nota- bly, the Music Lesson," by Loncret, celebrated painter of the Watteau school. Miss Smith has reproduced perfectly the exquisite colorings and has succeeded wonderfully in producing the style of decorative art that marked the Watteau period. Her sketches made when she was a student in Paris were hung conspicu- ously, and among those most favorably commented upon was the head of a wom- an who was a favorite model in the Julien Academy. She Is frishtfully gaunt and emaciated. and the hard lines in her face are brought out with those wonder full strokes of the artist that reveal her talent in black and white work. There Is something about the womans face that fascinates you, as if she stood for type.
 ''No other model in Paris was quite as hideous, quite as pathetic, and no other model possessed the exquisite flesh tints as those of this woman." Miss Smith would explain to the group looking in- tently at the sketch of this famous model of the Paris studios.
 Miss Smiths collection includes copies from Rembrandt and other masters. In Miss Robertsons collection there Is a fine grouping of drawings, the work of this artist having gained for her unusual distinction in the art set. In black and white work Miss Robertson seems to have a particularly bright career, while in oils and water colors she is equally successful.
 There is an exquisite head done in black and white and framed with the dull Elem ish oak that was charming and finely hung. A number of sketches received most favorable comment, and the canvass at- tracted great deal of attention.
 Mss Robertson studied with Chase in New York, and Miss Smith with Con- stant, Baschet, Schommer and Jean Paul Laurens in Paris.
 They will have classes in oils, water colors, china painting, and black and white work. There will be a sketch class every Friday afternoon.
 A speciality will be made of orders for portraits in oil, water colors pastels and crayons, and while these young artists are very ambitious, they will find time to decorate dinner cards and score cards, and will receive orders for this kind of work. which Is an exquisite art in itself.