Art and Handcraft in the Woman's Building
of the World's Columbian Exposition

IN THE WOMAN’S BUILDING. 57 painters. Her work is probably better known to those intimately connected with art than to the general public. She is of the school of Degas, Whistler, and Monet, and holds that a ballet- girl by Degas may be as religious as a saint by Puvis de Chavannes. Slie would call Degas master, but that lier manner of expres- sion has been arrived at independently of him. A set of her etchings has been purchased for the Luxembourg, and the French Government invited her to present it with a picture, an honor which falls to few, and which it was characteristic of Miss Cassatt to decline. Her “ Essais Japonais ” are what their title indicates, and are a revelation of strong line and exquisite OIL PAINTING—“ DEATH OF MIGNON.” Adrienne Potting. Austria. color. Her decoration in Chicago will no doubt be caviar to those who may not see the religion in Degas, but to the catholic lover of art it appeals strongly. Mrs. MacMonnies is a painter with a delightful color sense. It might seem rash that so young a painter should have been given, and that she should undertake, so grave a work. The decoration, which is sixty feet long, lias been carried to a successful completion,