Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-21
AUGUSTA ARTIST
ATTAINING HIGH
HONoRS IN ART

Behind the doors Of the pleasant
home at s Lambard Court, there
may be seen "a miniature art gallery
for the walls in. every available
space Of this home are filed with
beautiful paintings Of everything i'm
aginable Of Natures prettiest. Mrs.
Harriet Tibbetts. wife Of Charles
0. Tibbetts, is the artist and she is
more than modest about her en-
deavors.
AS matter Of fact, Mrs. Tibbetts
hasn't always painted. brought forth
delights from her brush and PALLET.
Until she was IS years Of age, Mrs.
Tibbetts did not take up the art seri.
ously. It 10 true that in school days,
teachers ferule was her chastisement,
| when she drew likenesses Of her
| schoolmates or even Her Royal High
ness. the teacher. But in her busy
| life, there was no time, to bring out
the genius which was so near the
! surface.
Those who know. will appreciate
| anything which might have been said
by the late w. ]. Bixby, the famous
painter, who passed away last year
at Marblehead. To him. Mrs. Tib-
belts took a picture which she had
just completed The old artist, COM
pletely covered by his smock which
would make Jacobs many colored
coat turn completely green, looked
at the painting which the Augusta
woman had brought to Boston for his
| especial criticism. For a long time
| the we'll built old man looked at the
| picture. It was a nervous time for
| the applicant.
There is only one criticism have
to make about that picture. 1t is too
| busy What would YOU imaging
that to mean? BY 'too busy" he
meant there was too much detail, too
| much action on that canvass AS
Mrs. Tibbetts recalls the painting
she had in it a stream, bridge,
mill, some animals and some people
Mrs. Tibbetts was all timidity in
regard to continuing the work. She
| expressed the feeling that she had
waited too long before taking up the
work seriously. The sturdy old
artist was most vehement in his
| scouting Of such an idea. He called
TO mind Rosa Bonheur, who did her
best work during the latter part of
her life. He, Mr.. BiXby. was then
man well in his sixties. and he also
pointed to himself, as an example.
From Champney, Mrs. Tibbetts
| took lessons in OIL She also took oil
lessons from John j. Ennekin. But
| it is her lessons with BiXby, which
were in water color, that she recalls
with pride.
Lessons in china painting. Mrs.
| Tibbetts took of Emma Joselyn
Cooper of Boston, who went to Bos-
ton from Newburg, this state, quite a
few years ago and has made very
splendid in her work. Another artist
| Of whom Mrs. Tibbetts took was
Charles Storer.
Mrs. Tibbetts is a graduate of the
Washington School of Art and has
her diploma to show for the work.
Her sketch book, starting from the
first lesson, early sh jWs the talent,
which 50 clearly manifests itself in
her more advanced pictures.
| Boston, SWampscott, Ocean Point,
New Harbor, Cobbosseecontee are
among some Of the places where Mrs.
Tibbetts has painted. One Of her
beautiful pictures is painting of the
bridge on the Vaughan estate in
Farmingdale. A view at Cobbossee-
contee, some old fish houses at New
| Harbor, a rugged sea coast glimpse at
SWampscot, are some of the subjects
which Augustus own artist has
! handled