WOMAN IN ART
"Fig Gatherers" was a strong and attractive painting at the St. Louis Fair of 1904, typical of scenes in her tropical home.
By the way, the four panels referred to measured five by nine feet, and the tympanums at the ends of the hall were fourteen feet high by fifty-eight feet long. The Hall itself had a floor space of sixty-seven by two hundred and fifty feet.
The next panel in order was of national import, and Mrs. Rosina Emmet Sherwood expressed in design and harmonious colors "The Republic's Welcome to Her Daughters."
Her sister, Miss Lydia Field Emmet, filled her space (literally) with art, science, and literature.
"The Women of Plymouth" was the title subject of the panel by Mrs. Lucia Fairchild Fuller,—a painting that serves well to illustrate the women whose character and courage began a new epoch in the entire civilized world. It is the spirit of those women of Plymouth that, for three hundred years, has advanced the new nation faster than the woodman's ax would fell the forests of
"Trees that looked at God all day,
And lifted leafy arms to pray."
There were paintings on the lower wall of the main hall as well as in the Art Building, showing the result of woman's art instinct and ability. To mention the names of a few artists will accent the fact of that instinct, and the beginning of their efforts through the last decade of the nineteenth century in the domain of art.
The beautiful Gothic dining room in that splendid building was made more beautiful by the mural paintings of Miss Agnes Pitman and the frieze by Ida J. Burgess which she painted in a delightful manner to represent "Youth."
There was a fine stained glass window in that room which revealed the genius of Miss Sears of Boston. Carved woodwork, elegantly embroidered portieres, fine pottery, choice books and their covers, were a few of the things that represented the art work of women from various parts of the world, making the whole a beautiful setting for the arts and industries practiced by women of all countries.
On the lower wall of that Hall of Honor was the portrait of a woman by Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, the friend and adopted daughter of Rosa Bonheur of By, in France. Miss Klumpke is an American artist born in Cali-
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