The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-13
GODDARD
GIRLS SUCCESS
Miss Marion Miller As An
Artist
is NOW AT GLOUCESTER
Graduate Of Local Seminry Has Gained
Considerable International Renown
For Her Poster
Work.
is NOW AT GLOUCESTER

Barre people and all graduates Of God
dard seminary win be interested in the
account Of Miss Marion Miller, grad
|uate Of the local school and now enjoy.
ing reputation as an artist, The story
followsi
Gloucester, Aug. 13.-This town is
held captive, East Gloucester and Rocky
Neck at least, by water colorists, who
have come from all over the country,
They perch about on wharf end and
ledge and reproduce as faithfully as they
may the nestled dories, the gray old
buildings and the gray old men who put.
ter round at odd jobs while the maekerel
fleet Is away.
There are women among these hunt.
ers Of the picturesque who are not un.
known, but none has gone further along
the road to success than modest, in
tcresting young woman from Illinois,
whose name is Marion Miller, and whose
pictures have been seen by more thou.
sands of people than those of most Of
her neighbors in the water.color colony
here. She II no stranger in New Eng
land, for Miss Miller comes OF a New
England mother, and is a graduate of
d New England school. Goddard semin-
AIRY at Barre, VT.
After leaving Goddard she entered
the art institute at Chicago, and took
rank almost from the start She ex.
hibitcd in the students shows, and took
prizes for a quickly recognized feeling
for decoration.
School over, Miss Miller went back to
her pretty native town OF ST. Charles
and started in TO work Now there be
ways and ways to work, and one OF the
commonest among women who have
studied drawing, color and composition
seems 10 be 10 turn out pictures, and to
offer them to a usually somewhat Ian.
guild public.
Miss Miller took her chances with the
boys as she herself put 1t. She wrap
ped up bunch Of drawings, took them
under her arm, and visited about so Of
the Chicago engraving houses. She
found that though she knew all the In.
stitute had 10 teach about making pie.
lures, she was still ignorant Of the
needs and eanons OF making pictures for
reproduction. With calm disregard Of
the possibilities of a zinc" she handed
out wash drawings and color schemes.
But this and thousand other details
were gathered in. and soon Miss siiler's
posters and advertisement illustrations
we're talking for her
Pictures Of children Miss Miller has
done in especially happy fashion. The
boy on his pony, they call him Dapple
Grey and Little Red Riding Hood y
are but two Of Mother Goose series
which are all we'll felt, ehaunlngly cOs
ored and cfaftily designed Her really
charming "Colonials,e being accidentally
shown in Europe, won an Immediate
success over there. Then came her char
acteristic and appealing Jap children
and women and her sturdy Dutch boys
and girls Many Of these types and
figures of Miss Miller's creation are
quite as well known in Europe as in
America
An unusual compliment was paid the
educational value of Miss Aiillers' work
when . collection Of her original draw.
iugs was sought by the public school
authorities and passed from school to
school in the vicinity of Chicago.
But all that work and il keeps Miss
Miller and her assistants busy from
September till June in her Chicago
studio is merely the 'pis aller.' That
doesn't mean that the Chicago girl has
secret warnings towards Art with a
large A. She believes modestiy that she
can do illustrating, and is evidently
OF having style of her own
sufficiently individual and sufficiently at.
tractiye to be worth owning. SO far
she has tried her strength and knows il
but nobody is ever fully conscious Of
his possibilities, aud there il much more
than hint in her work already done
that Miss Miller viii yet produce stuff
must longer.livei than Illustrations for
or even for fiction books.