A WOMAN SCULPTOR.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 621, 25 September 1909, Page 17

A WOMAN SCULPTOR.

; : - ; ;/•■ '• hek;;grbat : ;achi|vement.; f, :: ,;: ? , vA h:': American. •'. paper: tells of j the; work.; 6'f Jllle.;' Heuvelmnnsj' the young<Frenchwoman who: Woe;- the - Second Grand• Prixi'and camo■within an ace of Vvinning the Grand Prix de jßoniej, the j highest prize ■ to which -a -French student of art can.aspirc. The Grand Prii.de Rome is ;d prizo. 'worth having, since it takes .tni ■; tf iilnejr-.tb Rome:f 6r, f 6ur;years':.■ of;6tudy .at.Ffaices ■ The other; two' prizes, Hie'pi-emier second Grandi Prix and tlio 6econd GraM, Prix, simnly .bringVa.', certain; number 'ofprivileges in Paris,'' "':•■ \f, ;■''■■;.;::■ •: '■■ Mile. Heny'elmahs,, talented and 'with'; a ■ tre''for work; isi-twenty-sevoh yedh 'old, .tfift daughter: of -an drtistic cabinet : maker.' The father, - who' was, in good cirenni•stontieV; though: not wealthy,-gavo. the' girl;'a fine education, nnd'at.twenty,she, "lind:obtained the .highest diploma in "drawing, which a woman cnii.get in':.the. city'schools','and had.been'dj)poinFed professor'of that: study in a school inthe., v.Afr'bndissement.. Av; : : ;'- ; .:; The : Ecoie.;'des,'Beaux .'Arts "she ;had' never ehteVed'uptto this time, but. suddenly■ she'reSolved' 1 to study sculpture in,,her .odd hoars, and,.she did study 'it to such' advantage "that in, twoj: years vshe was. admitted;as .a pupil. She;'passed.: every, "concours," 'arid vwhen .eho submitted {» sketch : for the preliminary, competition for .the Grand Prix she was indmifted at • .'6A.cS/; . ; Ih'e3a,<preliminary■ competitions art severe,' and ..till .a few year's ago-women did not'.often care; to "enter.-. .Mile, Heuvelmhns, .hoitrdvei', proved .equal :to .the. strain,': as. iiidee'd ,'niany other women; do now. ;,Every' year Mile. Heuvelmans '■■ has" compoted; every year she has been, one of the ten, candidates chosen .to, enter;'th§jfinal 'coiripeti'tioh "en> lege"; every' ,yedrV. though the. jury .oar V.find.no fault with her work,..t)ie;coveted prize '. goes, by 'tradition,' to a'!man. l;This year .it went ..to .11.. Bennetan,. who was taking his Idst'chahde, as M is nearly thirty,'; and .students past thirty : many tot 'enter. ■'..-'';■ .■'.•• ! '.'''.",;" '•';■•!•-•■.''i-V.■;'!: . :;•'/'.■ ', Each of the-ten special-cahdiflates-does the rest of the world. '■ They have' thirty-six .hours for making ,' thd sketch--the, subject -being, given: them—. 'and thWeifc'ohths ,ip'.which the statue. ; Mile.' Heuvelmans .said that before, the professor had finished reading the subject she ihad "drawn it,'in. her. mind;" ~, She: wasn't, in the least jealous 6f hbr.successfur-rival.'M. Bennetan.!' on the, ;'day the prizes were announced he was spending the evening at her parents' home with - her, "in' thK friendliest mdiiher possible, Neither Mile.,Heuvelmans tior. her parents, by the way, are feminists. "We want to,hear nothing of.such nonsense," heriincther.told ai correspondent,.