The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

With most of the artists back in raeu Studios hard at work again, with the schools all opened and the shops display ing their newest pictures. the Art World is al last wideawaSe, after it's long sum mer nap, and in a snort while the EXnib- lien season will be in full swing
 Plans for tue different affairs that viii he held in Birmingham this winter are being duly outlined as rapiGlH as poss- ple the promoters of which is tho s-Nhpi- tion on next Wednesday and Thursday uf tine Margaret Allen Atehay, presided over by Miss hannah Elliot, hiis Joseph Montgomery, and Miss Della Dryer anu located in the Margaret Allen School in Highland Avenue.
 There are names to conjure with in The realm of women painters in the Art Catalogues BrInnghaep, althousa .conjuring' is not exactly the line of the Gre2ter portion of men and women whp visit Art Exhibitions.
 They so rankiY to criticise, to admire and some times to buy,
 Al the Exhibition at the Margaret AlIra Atelier most of the pictures Will be for sale and it will be an excellent oppor- tuntv for the art connoisseurs to nave 1lrst choice.
 # New York as well as outside, there is always breath of the Bohemian att mosphere of Paris in every artists Studio aitho more limited in the South than elsewhere
 Only recently in the Metropolis has the French System been introduced,
 If, on one of those dark nights, auout the hour when the call of the outer world begins to empty the crowded little 'red ink. restaurants of lower New York, you should chance upon rather noisy band of young men, marching down the centre of the street chanting:
 ''Viens ponpoule, viens poupoulc, viens!
 Quand j'entends chansons,
 Ca rend moi polsson-oh-"
 The first policeman you meet will prob- ably tell you that they are College boys. and you will probably believe hm-whicn only goes on to show that you and the Policeman have not kept abreast of the times.
 Ask one of the "chanting brotherhood" what it is all about and he will tell you that he and his companion are members of the Atelier So-and So,' and they have just been having little dinner to celebrate the fact that Student Some body or-Other" for who half the Ateller including tho patron himself-"niggered many long night, when he was zen charette"-has just won the Paris prize.
 Even then you will probably not under stand
 Certain it is you will not understa.-. the vernacuar, unless you happen to know the slang" of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
 This Bohemian spirit characterizes the general run ot art students the world over for there is camaradarie-an independ- ence-a charm about the artist-either at home or abroad-that is inimitiable-i-- describable-as in their little work saop- be Il ever So humble, or one of afflience and elegance--they work with palette and with brush intent upon their theme
 As to the question of "niggering term by the way, that is used to express nf fA1d f1,fv +l,t stitute servitude in an Atelier-sometimes 1t Is linking in"-another time, it is ''ren- derihs the drawing of another and older student any way it is something a stu dent never forgets-the days and nights of 'niggering" that were his or hers. l when first he became a "nouveau" of the Ecoe and when years afterwards he becomes mayhap the patron of his own Ate!ier, and has the satisfaction of seeing his own students observing venerable custom of the Quartier
 Anyway
 In whatever Ateler you go, either here or In the big cities of the North, you catch q glimpse of the real flavor of the French Atelier in hundred different ways.
 Birminsham. nothing laggard in the world of art. has in the Margaret Allen atelier an institution greatly to her credit. |
 Miss Hannah Elliott, whose beautiful miniatures and exquisitely finished worlxsl have been the admiration of scores of critiques for the past few years, is in charge of the Miniature Work and Draw ing.
 Ii is seldom indeed that one finds a young woman of Mss Elliott's popularity socially who takes the time and the pains to perfect herself in any branch of art to such degree as to attain the rank of ''professional,"
 Seldom still does one see a society girl who is willing to give up her time and energy to work that means lifetime of perseverance and hardship. in order to reach the coveted goal!
 All this Miss Elliott has done, while retaining her 'belleship''-hers by divine right of charm and grace and at the same time establishing herself as one of Birminghams most gifted artists.
 There is a daintness and aristorcratic elegance about Miss Elliott's work that is very noticeable. her observation being fresh and her deductions forceful.