WOMAN IN ART
of the world to enjoy. Sprightly fauns and dancing nymphs, water babes, and sportive dolphins come out into the world from her studio, to take their places on velvet lawns, seemingly to play at peek-a-boo with the sunlight and shadow amid the trees. Some in fountains splash and play and spatter lilies and lotus and the breeze with spray. In someone's garden a maiden stands holding a birdbath in both her hands, and, unafraid, birds flutter in and flirt with the water with head and wing.
Yes, Miss Scudder had to learn how to do it, so she went from Terre Haute, Indiana, where she was born, in 1873, and became a pupil under Rebisso, in the Cincinnati Art Academy; and having acquired technical knowledge, she did the rest. That included study in Europe to the progress of her art, till she was the first woman whose sculpture was bought for the Luxembourg Gallery.
Harriet W. Freshmuth is a strong worker in the round, as might be expected from one whose study was mostly with the great Rodin and Gutzon Borglum.
Edith B. Parsons, though the mother of a family, has done much with sculptures from animal life. Her work is spontaneous and, partaking of her spirit, the modeled animals look ready for an instantaneous change.
Carrol Brooks MacNiel has devoted her art to small creatures and people, much of it in the humorous and playful spirit, and all exquisitely modeled.
Edith Freeman Sherman, a graduate from the Chicago Art Institute, under Lorado Taft, has carried on her work while caring for a growing family. She has taught for three years in the American College at Honolulu, Hawaii, while her husband was president. She has several portrait busts and groups to her credit, and still continues modeling in clay and developing the character of three fine children.
During the month of May, 1915, an exhibition of original sculpture was held by American women at the Gorham Galleries, New York. For the sake of noting progress during the interim, we quote a little from the report:
"Of the life-size portrait busts shown, Gail Sherman Corbett's was the most important. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney showed an excellent study of a head in marble. Janet Scudder was represented by a bronze girl with
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