The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-23

its strength and spirituality. Her ex-
hibition in the Paris salon, as far back
as 1896 captivated the critics OF
France and won her the honor of as
sociate membership in the Societe
Rationale des Beaux-Arts. She re-
ceived a gold medal at the Paris *
position of 1900 and has had innum-
cradle honors heaped upon her by the
different art organizations of her own
land. Among her best known por-
traits are those of Richard Watson
Glider and his daughters; of John
Paul Jones, which hangs in the naval
academy at Annapolis, and "A New
England Woman owned by the Phil
adelphia Academy of Fine Arts. One
of her most interesting portraits is
that of DR.. John S. Billings, the pres
ent head of the New York public IL
brary. DR.. Billings was a surgeon in
the United States army and had
charge of the organization of the sur
geon generals library, which is by far
the greatest medical library in the
world. The estimate in which Miss
Beaux's work is held in Europe is at
tested by the fact that when it was
decided to present a portrait of DR..
Billings to the library, as a testi-
monial from the physicians of Europe
who had benefited by his work, she
was the only artist mentioned in con-
nection with the commission.
A number of women are well known
for their skill in painting mothers and
children. This is one of the avenues
first taken up by Miss Mary Cassatt,
a Pittsburgh artist who has spent
most of her life abroad, winning an
unusual number of honors, the most
noteworthy being hat Of "Chevalier
of the Legion of Honor of France"
Specimens of her work are to be
found in most of the leading art col
lections in this country. Miss Eliza
beth Nourse is another American girl
who delights in painting Women and
children, although many of her land
scapes and still life efforts are much
admired. Miss Nourse is one of the
few women whose work has been
recognized by the French critics to
government. Her picture, THE Closed
Shutters" was purchased last year for
the Luxembourg. She received a sill
YER medal at the Paris exposition of
1900 and has numerous other medals
and honorable awards both in her WI
country n abroad.
Women are finding the field of il
teresting. one of the first women to
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was Mrs. Alice Barber Stephens of
Philadelphia, who received a gold
medal in London in 1902. Mrs. Ste
phens has mastered the art of wood
engraving and thus is able to execute
her own designs. Jessie Wilcox Smith
and Elizabeth Shipper Green are also
well known illustrators. They both
have been especially fortunate in por-
traying child life, although Miss
Green also is interested in sculpture
and engraving. Miss Rose O'Neil is
another illustrator who has become
widely known by her pictures of chill
dren, while Alice Beach Winters, in
addition to children, does portraits
and figure work of unusual strength
and character.
Miniature painting is a branch of
art popular with women artists and
the American women are credited
with having evolved a distinctive
school of their own. 1t differs from
the miniature work Of Europe in that
the paint is aid on heavily, after the
manner of larger oil paintings, where
as the French miniaturists allow the
ivory to show through wherever pos
slble, applying the color with great
dellcacy. one of the first American
mlnlaturists to receive notice abroad
was Isabel E. Smith, who was the only
artist in Paris granted a sitting by
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, when
the little Dutch queen came to pur-
chase her wedding trousseau. Mrs.
smith has exhibited frequently in the
different European and American cit
les, her st. Cecilia having been a spe-
clal favorite. Her miniature of Presi-
dent Mckinley was set in diamonds
worn by Mrs. Mckinley until her
death. Mrs. Smith prefers the delicacy
or the European style of miniatures,
although at the exhibition of the New
York Miniature society held last De-
cember, the majority of the exhibits
were in the heavier effect. Martha
Baxter, Irene Bishop, Ethel Blanchard
CoilVer, Laura Fairchild Fuller, as
well as Laura Combs Hills, the vice
president of the American Society of
Miniature Painters, are among the
other well known women artists who
now are devoting most of their time
to miniature work.
The first American woman to take
up the sculptor's art had almost as
hard a path to tread as the pioneer
women in the other professions. Har-
rlet G.. Hosmer, whose name always
VIII stand foremost among the women
artists of the world, was refused ad-
mittance on account of her sex, to the
Boston Medical school, where she de-
sired to study anatomy. Later she
was admitted to the classes in the
Medical college of st. Louis. Her
father took her to Rome in 1852 in
order that she might have the fullest
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