The age-herald., 1902-03-07
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ART CRITICS ADMIRE
 ALICE RJMPH,S WORK.

Recent cables announce the great sue- cess of the annual picture show of the American Womans Art Association in Paris. which was held in the American Girls clubrooms in the Rue Chevreuse. There were two hundred paintings, pastel drawings water colors and miniatures, all work of American women. Among the young girls whose work received favor able comment was Miss Alice Rumph of Birmingham, the gifted young artist Miss Rumph chose for her subject a ballet girl, tying her slippers.
 So many well-known women made ex- hibits, that Miss Rumphs success will be gratifying to her friends. She is very young and has only been in Paris two years She went abroad with Miss Edna Gochel of Birmingham. the wonderful girl pianist, both of these girls being protiges of MT. and Mrs. Robert Munger.
 The Paris correspondent of the New York Tribune writes as follows of the American women whose work was pro- nounced to be the best at the recent ex- hibition:
 Nearly all the pictures represent figures
 
 is there any indication of the overcon- finement in the studio that too often weighs upon the works of the American male painter in France.
 The characteristic note of the Ameri- can women artists is that they are mak- ing paintings of intelligence rather than of sentiment or of imagination.
 
 exhibits three small open air subjects one of which is somber view in Venice and one the front door of a fruit shop They are delightful studies. showing originality and distinction.
 Three little Dutch girls, cepitally drawn and brilliant in color, somewhat after the style of Jean Weber, form highly credi- table panel exhibited by Miss May Past, 1 a scholarship girl of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
 Mrs. Frederick MacMonnies, president of the association, sends two translucent views of a terraced flower garden, with distant villas at Girvery. Miss Elizabeth Nourse sends a peasant woman holding in her arms an infant 
 inquisitive childhood is treated with honest sentiment
 Three studies of the Luxembourg Gar den by Miss May Perkins are cleverly treated. A girl reclining, half buried in a pile of soft pale green cushions, and the Town of Moret covered with snow are two works of excellent technique by Miss Eleanor Greatorex. Miss Kathleen Greatorex sends a strongly drawn DOT trait of a young man and some vigorous landscapes.
 There Is truthfulness in Miss Elizabeth Van Eltens family of peasants return ing home after the days work through hillside and orchard tinged with the last rays of the sun.
 Miss Blanche Dillaye sends a pleasing water color meadow, with haystacks and a village in the dim twilight.
 Other commendable works are by Lucy B. Robbins. Miss Bertha Waters Miss l Rebecca Jones, Miss Della Carretson Miss Macarthur and Miss Haigh well composed portraits by Miss Louisa Wood Miss Qualy, Miss Churchill, Miss Ella l Thomas and Miss Pickard. Mrs. Hart's village scenes are interesting.
 Miss Bertha Waters petite blanchis- l seuse standing before flowing linen ] clothes drying on clothesline on a hillside, with a distant river, is clever Miss Van Buskrks evening effect in a village is truthful and pleasing. bal let girl is trying her slipper. by Miss Rumph of Alabama, is promising study There is som ewhat Rodinesque sculp- ture by Miss Meta Beaux Warrick.