New-York tribune., 1908-05-17
Y. W. G. A. ART SCHOOL
Exhibition of Students Work To
Be Held This Week.

The exhibition OF the work of the pupils OF the
school of the Young Women's Christian Asso-
ciation, which will be open TO the public next
Wednesday AT the studios in the building at No Z
East 18th street, will be practical demonstration
of what a girl do in limited time when her
teachers know how to systematic. 1t is the con-
viction of Miss Sophia Antoinette Walker. the di
rector. that girl can pursue several branches at
the time and do well in each as she
do in one thing, keeping at it all the time
Besides" she remarked to ii Tribune reporter,
you can't expect young lively girl to remain
pinned down to one task for hours together. She
gets tired To change from drawing to wood
carving, from embroidery to modelling In clay,
rests the mind and the eyes and the hands, and
what learn in any one Of these allied arts helps
you in the others"
The work of each first year girl is arranged by
itself. in a room off the workroom The following
is a typical one-girI exhibit: the wall pinned
designs in pencil and water color-mechanical
drawings, done for precision; tracings nom MS
toric ornaments; original designs based on the
motifs of these tracings drawings from casts and
exercises in color On the table below stand sew
era pieces of pottery Jars of quaint design figures
modelled in the round and in bass-rehef. and a
carved bookrack. Still below, on the floor. STANDS
q splendid chest its sides covered with intricate
carving.
A notable piece Of work done by another first
wear girl Is a lantern of clay, in the shape OF a
Moorish mosque with much curious and fnvolved
open scrollw6rk. To have built this thing up out
of anything fiabby clay and built II SO nrTiy
that 1t could fired and made a thing OF lasting
beautv is surely as one Of the teachers remarked,
an achievement.
A pair of candIesticks Greek In design. shine out
from another girls collection Another student ev-
IDENTIFY has taste for gargoy1es, and has out-sar-
goyled some of the weirdest in a goats head IN
cluded in her work. Whatever the girls see any
where that appeals to them, whether 1t De Coptlc
or Crecian or plain American, whether 1t be In a
museum or picture in book, the tracing on a
~, Of nj
they bring to their work. adapting and recon1oin-
ing 1t suits them.
In the exhibit Of the second year work Is one
eroup Of pictures which the result or a splen-
did exercise for developing the imagination Miss
Helen NJ. Turner. the teacher, reads aloud 10 tns
girls a story or a poen1-perhaps The Pied Piper
or Ouida's Dog Of Flanders and then each one
is allowed an hour in which TO draw q picture sug-
gested TO her by the reading. Much attention TO
drawing is given in this year. Among the sketches
from models are some striking portraits done by
different girls of the same head-a strong featured
womans head.
An exhibit that will appeal to women is a col
lection of delicate fabrics for -ornarnented
with conventionalized flower designs done by a
very simple process. that of block printing Stem
cilled designs feature Of the second year
work. and there curious and effective
transparencfes for ha1f-windows made of original
stencil patterns framed between glass.
In the third years work comes, along with many
other things the art embroidery. taught by Miss
Mary Bacon Jones. They really art, the pieces
Of embroidery in this exhibit. The designs are
original the textiles carefully chosen; the color
fngs are the patient study and often the
student dyes her materials in order to obtain just
the tones she wants
One embroidered bag shows design which the
maker adapted from old tomb she had seen
in England. unique bedspread IS made from an
old hand linen sheet. 1t IS treated with
what might be called underlay work the design
cut out of the sheet and the latter stitched down
unon Russian crash, which shows through the
openwork.
The work Of the evening class will be on exh-
bition too Part of this consists Of costume draw
ing for many of the students in this class work IN
dressuaking establishments or large department
stores.
One girl in this class said Miss Walker, lives
thfrty-fve miles out of New York She works in
an Office all day. and then comes here and studies
two evenings a week She doesn't get home I'LL
midnight She eats all her meals in the city
brings them with her, I believe.
1.-The other evening CHANGED to pass her at her
drawing board. and her head was down on her
arms; she was fast asleep.
"I was Just resting my eyes, she assured me-
as she started up
~ said is il worth while coming here?
".Yes. it is she answered. and I'm coming
apaju ext wear.