The Copper Country Evening News

THEY EXCEL IN ART.

GIRLS WINNING MARKS AS ILLUSTRATORS.

Mildred Howells Embellishes Her Father's Poems-Something About the Art Student Colony of New York - Well-Known Names. (N. Y. Letter.)

MILDRED Howells, daughter of William Dean Howells, is a clever art student of Gotham. Perhaps it should be said that she is a recognized artist. But the artists have a way of clinging to the title of "student" long after they can work independently. Miss Howells has her studio in the very heart of the art students' colony. The "Colony" is that section of the city extending across the whole width of Central Park and down town as far as Fiftieth street. The Art League is in the center and the students group around it. It is the Latin quarter of New York. Miss Howells has a studio in her father's apartments facing Central Park. She works daily with her brushes, for art is her profession, as literature is her father's. Miss Howells, after a long course of study in Paris, Rome and London, began by illustrating her father's poems. Her tail-pieces attracted attention, and the cleverness with which she caught the conception of the work made friends for her with writers. All artists cannot get the "tone" of the work they illustrate, even while they draw well. Miss Howells' work appears regularly in the highest class magazines and she has settled down to the profession of regular illustrative work.

Another of the girl artists of New York is Allegra Eggleston, daughter of Edward Eggleston. "Miss Eggleston," said an officer of the Art League, "ought not to be called a student now, though she still studies. She is a professional." Her specialty is children's faces. These she does with much delicacy, making them young, sweet and dimpled. She was the first artist who ever had the courage to put a pug nose upon a child's face, though all children's noses are pug. Besides drawing in line work, which is Miss Eggleston's specialty, she carves exquisitely. When she was a little girl she carved an "idol" out of a rotten piece of wood. Her father saw it and was impressed with the correctness of the lines, for the child had exactly copied an idol in the Metropolitan museum, and he told her to keep on. At ten her instruction in art began.