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

IN THE WOMAN’S BUILDING. 73 We enjoy hugely her Chinamen, cats, and other amusing crea- tions. They are real beyond a shadow of a doubt, and one is positive that they have done, and will do again, all the ludicrous things that Mrs. Wheelan repre- sents them as doing. With the exception of Made- line Lemaire and a few others, it is difficult to find any women illustrators abroad of much prom- inence. It sometimes seems that our best magazines, which in ac- cepting only good work have raised illustration to a fine art, have done more toward dissemi- nating a general art culture in the United States than any other single influence. Now that it is possible to re- produce, by different processes, all kinds of sketches, we find not only pen and ink but lead pencil, crayon, gouache, aquarelle, pastel, and even NEEDLEWORK PANEL. Miss Eliot Walker England. oil, rendered with great success. The illustrator has all the delights of using these different mediums and yet working toward a practical result. Illustration opens so wide and attract- ive a vista, occupies so high a place in the art of this country, and is withal so remu- nerative, that women would do well to fol- low it more largely than they have done heretofore. A gentleman, who is an acknowledged authority on illustration, in lecturing to a class of art students on the pros and cons of working for reproduction, said that to be a successful illustrator one must have, book cover. among other qualities, “ ingenuity and Designed by Sarah W. WHrrMAN.^nven^on>” Jf this be true of illustration,, it applies preeminently to book-cover de- signing. This particular line of applied arts has received a great