The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-08

art instruction began.
 | Miss Shaw probably has painted moro | miniature portraits of distinguished per-
 sons than any other American artist. | In the field of miniature portraiture wo- | men excel. and naturally so-that kind | of painting is at once so beautiful. so fine l and so elusive. Moreover. miniature DOT | traiture lends itself with especial grace ! and charm to the portrayal of women s | faces. and here Miss Shaw struck her gait. She paints mems pictures as well as she does women's but somehow the wo-
 mems faces that look out from the little l frames appeal more to the beholder. | There are peculiar softness and fineness as well as strength in her work, which | is among her own sex largely. woman s delicate face depicted by woman's deli. cate fingers.
 Moreover. unlike most American art
 ists Miss Shaw knows also how to draw and to color as well as to compose picture. It is painful to one familiar with the work of French artists to look at a collection of American paintings because of their glaring lack alike in
 American artists will not take time to
 learn these things or to go and live
 where they can be learned. Miss Show seems to have had them by nature. for
 master of her craft. Perhaps part of this secret of being master of her craft lies in the announcement made of her that she IS mot much given to society.
 Sle says at nome Wlln neT dTI TUT HST society. On it she bestows her love. her time and her labor, and 1t has rewarded her devotion grandly In person she is a small. graceful young woman with dark hair and eyes and a beautiful neck and shoulders, like so many of the fair ladies whom she pictures.
 Among miniatures 'ately painted by Miss Shaw is the portrait of Kate Doug las Wiggin. After finishing some work on which she is now engaged the small brunette artist with the gifted fingers will sail for England to paint miniatures of Queen Alexandra and several other ladies Thence she journeys to St Peters burg to make pictures Of several mem hers of the Czars family What rare book of "reminiscences Miss Shaw will be able to make one of these days! Let us hope she will take notes author fashion. that she may not forget the scenes she beholds. the people she meets.
 One of Miss Shaw's portraits is that of Lady Clarke. wife of Sir Stanley Clarke, King Edwards chief equerry: The dreamike, caresslng softness of touch which is one of the artists chief chara cteristics is very marked in this painting, and 1t is no wonder that be- cause of it the young American received her order to put upon ivory the fair face of England's queen.
 queen and a baby alike appeal power fully to the feminine heart, and most women would consider next in import ance after the miniature of Alexandra one already painted by Miss shaw, the exquisite picture of Katherine. the beau tiful infant daughter of MT and Mrs Clarence Mackay. She is just sweet, bright. dimpled baby. that is all. though she is weighted with the burden or mil lions of dollars and will have 10 urtss six times day when she IS young lady.
 To my mind Miss Shaw in her portraits has. perhans unconsciously to herself, hit upon the true American girl type ho more more successfully than those artists wno nave ,- ...l,- rifnc 4t Ihlno long. The American woman, so far as she has gone is not long and thin necked. with narrow. sloping shoulders and a hollow chest. like the court beau ties of George HIS time whom tn" art- ist7 who attempt to depict the American girl tyne evidently can not get out ot their minds Miss Shaw's portraits of American beauties show a woman with a shorter fuller neck. deeper chest and broader. more athletic shoulders than the typical English woman possessesI how eveT. beautiful she may be The typical American girl has also q shorter nose than the English woman and somewhat