The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-24

MI known young artist, was a
 charming figure yesterday while experimenting the hanging of her pic- lures for her exhibition which opening today will continue until the latter part of next week. The arranging or her paintings, studying the proper lights ana chatting of her days in Paris occupied the entire morning. for she had numerous Interruptions in the way of art lovers and collectors, those who were impatient to see some of her pictures before they were hung.
 The exhibition is notable in many re- spects. In the collection are included number of canvases. water colors and drawings, most of them being done dur ing Miss Rumph's stay abroad. There are about sixty pictures in her collection. Interest will naturally center about her Salon picture but there are many others that deserve equal prominence, and art lovers will be tempted to finger in admira- ton before a number of exquisite cam vases while making their way to the Sa- lon picture.
 It is a little Dutch interior, the central figure being an old woman of the peasant class knitting quietly beside an open win dow in the living room The little grand daughter, in a child like attitude, is sit ting by the side of the grandmother, her profile well defined in the fine light of a sunny afternoon. The back ground shows the Dutch bed built into the wall, and to the right of the window is the quaint old cupboard, it's rich, dark wood producing an interior of shadows, the sun-lit window alone lighting up the placid face of the old grandmother, and making golden radiance above the shadows.
 Another canvass that will attract at- tention is the figure of d French ballet girl trying her slipper This picture was exhibited in the American Girls club in Paris and received mention in the Paris cables at the time of the exhibit. very fine canvass is the figure of an old Italian woman, a faded shawl about her should CTS, that has a suggestion of pale roses. The background is quite wonderful in yell low and the vermilion is used with fine effect in contrast to the ochre tints
 An Italian Lace Maker" is the model in a remarkably fine canvass and there are other beautiful canvasses of Italian types, notably that of "Guiseppi" The artist spent much of her time in Milan, Venice. Florence and Rome, and her studies of Italian types are as wonderful in their shadowy outlines as are the clearer. more distinctly defined French and Dutch types.
 The most ambitious canvass is a DOT trait of the artists two sisters. It sug- gests Whistler at once. the pose of the figures, light, delicate. gracefully poised. The shadowy background. the whole tech nique of the canvass is characteristic of Whistler. The refinement the softness of Miss Rumphs work is second only to her feeling for atmosphere, and it is evil dent that the young artist is not unlike Whistler in her tastes. Whistler detested the story picture and painted "nocturnes' and symphonies" Miss Rumph with her fine understanding of the science of paint ing is decidedly appreciative of what Whistler meant when he spoke of the elements in color and form. This must not be taken. however, to mean that Miss Rumph has been influenced by Whistler. Among the most interesting of the smaller canvasses are the little Dutch peasants in characteristic attitudes and there is a fine canvass of a Baker Boy, a familiar type in Paris.
 There are several street scenes. notably the old street of La Cite. showing the quaintness and the few remaining land- marks. Through it's dmness is the figure of a sister of charity. In the back grounds are the chimney tops of Paris.
 There are many charming water colors. little canal scene in Dordrecht, the Ven ice of Holland, is exquisite.
 Miss Rumph Is exhibiting a number of drawings. A charcoal sketch on gray pa per showing the Quay at night. with the tower of Notre Dame in the background wins the young artist distinctive claim to recognition. Here again is what Whistler would call an arrangement in black and gray" Above the tower of Notre Dame is the pale radiance of a moon and near the Quay are the still fainter outlines of a boat, dark, barely discernible.
 Another charcoal sketch shows view of the Seine at night. the wonderful gray and black effects that blend with the darkness the stiffness, the faint glimmer of a light that seems to penetrate the densest of shadows.
 Miss Rumph considers these sketches her best work
 Do I miss Paris?" said Miss Rumph. "I certainly miss 1t in a way, but I do not expect to ever spend any length of time there again. I may go there during my vacation, but there will be no more long. delightful winters in the studios. I miss the life of Paris-what one gets there but after a certain time one wants other things that are not to be found in Paris
 q do not think I am enough of a