The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-20
AMONG THE WOMEN ARTISTS

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 What Kate Greenway was to English art illustration Grace Gebbie Wieder- seim of Philadelphia Is to that of America, except that her held Is aome- what different, Mrs. Wiederseim Is the whole worlds Mother Goose art ist T always was a Mother Goose girl says Mrs. Weiderseim. Though the talented young woman is married. the talented young woman has the face of a merry, mischievous child and ur- doubtedly will carry the same with her to the end, though she live to be a hundred.
 The little Quaker City girl was born humorous earicaturist. When child she amused and scared by turns her playmateS with the grotesque faces she made. That was how her art first ex- pressed itselt--making faces. As she grew older. she decided to be an artist Naturally it was high art" that first filled her fancy, but even when prac- tieing In the drawing school she could not resist carIcaturing the models. So she gave up the serious aspect of her budding aspira tions and happily for the world confined herself to adding to it's gayety and Joyousness by making pictures of Mother Goose children.
 S~HsNr~ faces remained with her. Unlike any other artist in the world. Mrs. Weider- seim is her own model, Suppose she desires to represent a Mother Goose child She simply looks into the mir TOT and makes a face at herself, a grotesque image, of the kind which used to send her Infant playmates Into fits of laughter. She retains the pose so to speak, and rapidly sketches the d. terward she finishes 1t and uses 1t for Bopeep or Roy Blue or some other of the inmo~tal Mother Goose people.
 And somehow I never seem to make the same face twice" says the unique illustrator.
 Since Rosa Bonheur the most skill ful painter of animal life is also wo- man--which is rather odd. The lady IS Miss Lucy Kemp -Welch, a quiet, re- served English girl whose home and studio are at Bushey, about an hour s train Journey from London.
 Lucy Elizabeth Kemp Welch, born in Bournemouth, England, is now s6 years old. She obtained her art education at the school of Hubert Herkomer at Bushley. Force and power are the striking features of her work: horses are among her favorite models. When a child she did not do the conventional doll playing and doll dressing which arc considered the strictly propere amusement for little girls. Instead she would lie upon the floor for hours sketching imaginary animals with a pencil upon any old kind of paper she got hold of. Later she had number of live pets, and with this small me- nagerie at hand she entertained herself for hours making pictures Of it's anl- mals. These were her first studies from life.
 Connected with the studio at the back of her house is a glass inclosure m which are confined the horses and oth- er animals her virile conception seizes on and her skilled hand transfers 10 canvas. once race horse got out anu ran down the street. After him ran Miss Kemp Welch and quickly "shooed him back to his glass stable. Again, while painting sea gulls one Of the birds bit her severely. but that was rothing when the artist was in pur- suit of her famous picture of Herring GuIls on the Coast of South Devon While she was busy at this picture on the seashore at times the tide would come in and take her unawares, just at the moment the birds were In the most favorable position, Then Mss Welch simply took of her shoes and stockings and stood where she was till the rising waves lhFedLehSu lu bHGOp her off her feet altogether.
 One of her noted pictures Is Lord Dundonald's Dash on Ladysmith" dur ing the Boer war. To get material for her Colt Hunting in the New Forest Miss Kemp Welch rode, on horseback days and days in the New Forest.
 The American painter, Miss Violet Oakley, has distinguished herself in mural paintings. She was selected to decorate the walls of tho governors re- ception room in the new Statehouse al Harrisburg, Pa, She chose a historic theme, the development of religious liberty, finally illustrated in the set tlement of Pennsylvania by William Penn, the Quaker There are thirteen separate panel pictures in the frieze ot the governors room. In the beautiful church of All Angeis, New York city. s a remarkable piece of mural work by Miss Oakley. II is a splendid altar piece representing the Ascension and the attendant heavenly host. Miss Oakley has her home and studio at Villa Nova, Pa.
 Miss Mary Tillinghast, Americas Ia nous artist in stained glass. has re- gently completed a noble work entitled "st. Paul Preaching" The scene is at Athens and none of the feminine sex is represented among the nearer Of the apostle who did not Ike women. The coloring is indescribably rich and splendid. Above the head of the saint. instead of the ordinary halo of himbus, is burst of rainbow like light through thin veil of cloud. The pieces Is for church window in onkerc.
 During her much rummaging for historic information of the early Christian saints and martyrs, Miss Tillinghest discovers a description Of the personal appearance Of the Christ. It was taken from letter to the Roman senate at the time of JeBuA'