The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-16
A SHOW BY WOMEN ARTISTS
SCULPTURES LARGE AND SMALL
N LEXINGTON AVENUE.

Opening % the Exhs61tIsn Orxan,,.a n,
Nrs. ". ?. wRstney-s CommIstse
-More Than One EIunared sculpaur~-
ny Artists Wei kaswn ana ~ Othera.
An exhibition Of sculptures by woman
will he opened 20 the public this morning
at Thirtisth street and Lexington avenue
which - well worth q visit from admirers
OF plastic modelling. whether they choose
to forget or TO remember that the ex-
hibttcts are women. II In an exhibition
by women and aometimes Of women, bur
not by any means exclusively for women
The exhibition " held in the building OF
the New York school Of Applied Design
Tor Women at the invitation OF Mrs.
Dunlap Hopkins. hut IL has no direct
relation To the work Of the school m such.
the exhibition having been arranged by
q committee which includes some Of the
best known Of the women sculptors oE
the city. who sought 20 make IL repres~nta-
tive within the limitations Of the some
what restricted exhibition hall
Within the single room there are IFS
sculptures. large and small the work Of
nearly thirty artists. There are only
ten women sculptors in the National
Sculpture Society and two in the National
ACademy OF Design and most OF thoa@ ar.
represented here. and the figures reveal
that the COMMITTEES Of arrangement. Of
which Mrs. Harry PAYNE Whitney IN chair
mRn. has gone outside the limits Of these
official organizations and brought IN
works which the COMMITTEES deemed
worthy OF invitation. although the show
- in no way analogous To the current
exhibition Of the painter insurgents
against academic conservatism.
Mrs. Nhitney's Aztec fountain for the
building of the Pan American bureau
or the Bureau of American Republicn In
Washington holds th.. centre OF the hall
co!ored TO represent the Tsnus==ne marble
N which u haa bs~n executed for the
court that ~ to b. its home aud the ex-
hibtts range trom this central feature |
through heroic figures done for nonu-
mental works down 90 miniature sc1Ilp- |
lures applied to personal Use a. well a. |
ornament. These anal sculptures in |
cliids such objects a. Inkwells and paper 7
weights OF attractive design and Toa- 1
venisnt proportions. all good 20 look at
yet how willingly one iOrg-ts tbs. utiH- /
bor. the sturdily modelled, eIoanent
composition which Miss EberIe has en-
titlesi The Rag Picker" PortraitI,r. 4.
herr too. both in the round and ia bas- |
rFs&Ff.
Besides Mrs Whitney and Miss El,.rI.
The eNhibitors include Miss Enid Vansl.lI. |
Mics Helen Mears. Mrs. Gail Sherman
Corlpeti; Miss janet Scudder and Mi~s
Anna Hyatt. both u whom are in Paris. /
Mrs. Carol BROOKS MacNeil. Mr,. Edith /
Moodman Burroughs. Mrs. PauIstins \
faTnham. Mrs. Besg.ie Potter Vonnoh AMI |
numerous Of the lesser known among th.
women SCULPTOR Mrs. B,Irroughs's
head Of John La Fargo h there. a. ~ Mias /
ccudders large figure At the BROOKLYN /
Institute and A. are some ol Mrs. SHEER /
mans monumental figures. has relief- ,
and smaller sculptures. some OF Mrs
MacNeils perponifcAtions of ideals Mr.
Nonnoh's attractive small sculptures. /
and Miss iendell's freely studied figure :
compositions. which arr. very differ,.nt
from her elaborated monumental work
One % Miss iaisdslfs most recent fo,In-
talns IN also here. as ~ a has relief Dor |
TRAIT and festive boy IN the round by 1
Mrs Corbstt.
The committee has arranged an exhibi- !
ton IN which u has right to feel soIne 1
satisfaction ~ one that will afford pleas
ure and perhaps profit. and u a visitor 1
looks ~ vain Surprirs for the nains. or 4
Evelyn LOngmAn. which u constSic,loasiy
missing from tbs official group. the VISITOR !
meets the qLizzical glance Of one. Of the 1
ladies' and her Delphio remark: .If you !
will look among The men you will find Mia |
Longman. I think
And you turn away wondering. until /
YOU recall that the men were not invited /
to this exclusive show and then wonder |
increases. But n YOU are patient you may |
learn that Miss Longman declined 70 |
exmbit here because men were not in |
Nitsd. The exhibition will remain omen 1
for three weeks.