Repokt of Board of "Women MANAciEEs. I'ST 



Caroline Ilecker aiul Mrs. Kenyon (Jox. The comtnittee found that 

 the best work hy women artists in ISTew York had already been con- 

 tributed to the regular fine art department of the exposition. A col- 

 lection of pictures was made, however, at Budworth & Sons, on Four- 

 teenth street, New York, and tlie conunittee acting as jurors selected 

 twelve. These, Avhich in justice to the painters it should be stated 

 were not up to their highest standards, except, perhaps, in the case of 

 JVLiss Brooks and the busts of Lincoln and Cxrant by Mrs. Sarah F. 

 Ames, were sent to Chicago at the expense of the board. The bust 

 of Mrs. Stowe, and the portrait of Pocahontas were acquired for the 

 librai-y by members of the line art committee, Mrs. Sage securing the 

 former through the sculptor, Miss Annie Whitney, and Mrs. Pell- 

 Clarke obtaining the latter from Mrs. Palmer, it having been sent to 

 the exposition from England by Mr. Wellcome. Through some unac- 

 countable oversight the portrait of Pocahontas remained in its box for 

 half the summer, and it was through Mrs. Pell-Clarke's intervention 

 that its whereabouts were discovered. The chairman had it placed at 

 once in the library. She also undertook the reshipment of the picture 

 at the close of the exposition- to its owner, Mr. Wellcome. 



The national committee of New York artists appointed by Mr. 

 Halsey C. Ives disclaimed the charge of having been hostile to women 

 artists in making their choice of pictures for the Fine Art Building, but 

 many complaints were forced upon the committee on fine arts of the 

 Board of Women Managers, and there were various requests received to 

 have pictures reconsidered. The women did not find it within their 

 power to accede to such requests. Considerable trouble was taken to 

 gather statistics about women artists, and it was learned that several 

 hundred women, natives and residents of the State, were following art 

 as a profession. The subject of the appointment of women jurors in 

 the national advisory committee was brought before the executive com- 

 mittee, and, therefore, appears in the report of that committee. 



Acting upon a suggestion made by Mrs. Halsey, Mr. Bierstadt was 

 asked to loan his picture of the " Landing of Columbus " for exhibition 

 in the New York State Building. On granting the request of the 

 women Mr. Bierstadt offered the companion picture, " The Yosemite." 

 Although space for these pictures was promised, much to the regret of 

 the committee the place was not found for them. The architects of 

 the building requested that no pictures should hang on the walls, as 

 rich draperies and paper had been especially designed for them. Mr. 

 Bierstadt's pictures required a strong light and peculiar color surround- 

 ings, and although the architects were obliged to yield to the judgment 

 of others before the summer was over, a few pictures finding place in 

 the large rooms on the entrance fioor, the committee felt that Mr. 

 Bierstadt's pictures would not have been seen to advantage on any of 

 the wall spaces available. 



Knitting Mills Exhibit. 



Mrs. Palmer's appeal to the industrial women of the country to take 

 part in the exposition, brought a letter to her from Miss Ellen Conlon, 

 a M'orker in one of the knitting mills of Amsterdam. She expressed 



