A WOMAN OF MARK

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1533, 31 August 1912, Page 11

A WOMAN OF MARK

Onid Yandell is one of the women who have proved that sculpture is not an essentially masculine calling (writes the "Designer"). She is a Kentuckian by birth, but she practises her noble art in on? of tho antiquated red brick munsious cf Washington Square, New York, helped -701' hindered—by two lively ragged terriers, her inseparable companions. She has dealt with important portrait statues and with larsje themes, as witness the memorials to Emma Wiliard at Albany, to Chancellor. Garland at Vanderbilt L'ni-ye-Mty. or tlio bij Carrie Brawn Memorial at Providence, which represents such ail ambitious subject as "The Struggle of Life," by allegorical figures twelve feet high; tho winged eout striving ngaiust the Body, and with tho forces of Passion, Ambition, and Avarice holding her to earth. Also she had modelled objects of art that you can hold in your hand, such as the fanciful loving-cup which she calls "The ICiss." This is in the foTtn of a covered tankard; around the tankard curls a wave, on the cover crouches a fisher-lad, leaning towards a sinuous mermaid who stretches up the handle to him, and as tho cover is lifted, the faces of fisher-boy and siren meet. Much of Miss Yandell's sculpture . has the form of fountains. There is tho big Fountain at Louisville; the fountain of "The AVater and the Flower," which adorns the handsome grounds of John Hays Hammond; ond the charming little "Faun with Shell" for thoso of Mrs. H. 11. l'omeroy's coimhy home at Easthampton. She has just finished a bronze "Narcissus," kneeling to admire his own. reflection, which will bo placed in tho centre of a pool in what Mr. Charles C. Goodrich calls his "autumn" garden, at Orange, N.J.—a garden of ivy and ever greens, late-flowering plants, and shrubbery grown, for its red berries or its brilliant change of leaf. Miss Yandell is a member of the principal societies of artists in America, and has frequently shown her work in foreign exhibitions. She has received several medals at international expositions, and the violet ribbon'worn in the buttonhole of lier toilor-mado coat moaii3 that the French Government has honoured her with the grade of "Officer d'Academie."