St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 51

LOUIS. MO, NE 3( am a Z.ryd I nllf 7 1 it CSL-ssr I But since I am the only child, Ujy. 1 "When grown persons pose for you they don't already a self-supporting artist, as the Society stand or sit naturally or gracefully; they are of Applied Arts has a steady market for the ttata more likely to attempt to strike an attitude which ettes, candlesticks and other plastic articles she they consider artistic. makes with tireless facility. Yet, with an artistic "There Is nothing more beautiful than a grow- conscience perhaps due to her descent she comes leg boy.

He is lithe and supple. I am speaking of old French families of St Louis she Is not of a nude boy. Modern clothing is ugly. Cloth- satisfied with commercial success. One of her ing masks true beauty Just as an affected pose or present ambitions is to become the author of a concealed expression does." a heroic group of statuary for the San Francisco Sneakinc of one of her tiny figures, a plaster Exposition.

OT so many years ago a slender, dark-haired girl, whose vivid face was thought by her companions to resemble that I very clearly see That all the naughty things to do Will have to fall on me. Now, if I had three brothers and About six sisters, then I'd be more good, for things would be Divided 'mongst us ten. In addition to her verses, Miss has written a book of fairy tales and has composed many pieces of music. As an added evidence of her versatility, she is considered one of the best amateur violinists in St. Louis.

But these accomplishments ah rtnps nnt willfnerlv display. She is per- St. Louis artists held by the Civic League at the Public Library. She went abroad last year, after she had become a member of the Association of Western Artists and of the New York Ceramic Society, and entered in October the Academie Colarossi, in Paris, under Paul BartletL But Ler independent genius revolted against the confinement of a school, and she joined with a friend in setting up an atelier of their own. It was here that she It is a striking fact that all of the Potters, and not Miss Risque alone, have sought ambitious careers.

Miss Petronelle Sombart, possessor of a lyric soprano, is studying for grand opera In Milan. Miss Ecina Wahlert, now Mrs. McCourt, model of a naked boy standing upright, with legs apart and head thrown back, she says: "Spontaneous grace! Drape that figure In jacket and Vr.ickerbockprs and you cover the natural beauty with a veil." charaeteiioue, her fi lends say, that they and her relatives were not informed that she was working upon the statue until the approval of Paris made It a public fact. Miss Risque had at first a bent taward painting, until the keen eye of her instructor, Julian Zolnay, discovered that her genuine vocation was sculpture. Beginning with children's portraits in clay and bronze, she advanced in her art with rapid strides until she achieved the artist's most desirable goal recognition from the Taris Salon.

Her "Petite Nymphe," a life-size design for a fountain, is a little girl, daintily delicate of form, holding a fish by the tail. One or her earlier pieces is the figure of a weary old man, utterly relaxed in sleep Father Time. of Maud Adams so much that they nicknamed her "Bab," made child pictures and verses for the Potter's Wheel," an ambitious monthly magazine in which a club of gifted St Louis girls, modeled her water nymph. The remarkable keenness and promptitude of published a "completion" of Coleridge's fragment, elance bv which Miss Risque can catch In a mo- "Cbristabel." Visss Williamina and Crare Far A few years ago Wilfcam Marion Reedy, in the haps best contented to speak of her statueues 01 St. Louis Mirror, said of Miss Risque: "She children, whose spirit she has the girt of inter-writes almost as well as she paints." Now that preting with grace.

That she has ideas of her she has won a notable triumph in sculpture, her own is indicated by the following remarks about who called themselves the Potters, found vent for their temperaments and artistic talents. This girl, who was even then acclaimed as rish are becoming well-known as artistic photographers in New York. Miss Olia Harris was a membff of the faculty of Mary Institute isntil f.l bealth compelled her retirement Miss' Vine jColby Is engaged In a career of sociological arid economic study. Miss Sara Teasdale' is recog- rtient the entire spirit of her subject is shown In many of her works. She saw a child playing ii a yard and, Without farther posing, went into her studio and modeled "The Baby Next Door." Her "Father was conceived while a model in one of Zolnay's classes, an old soldier of the friends are reviving the poems which she wrote child figures Every pose of a child is beautiful because It Is for the "Potter's Wheel." They are characterized This statue has been cast in concrete for a sun dial.

Among her clay portraits made in St by humor aM sentiment "par excellence the genius of the Potters," has One of her child verses natural. The reason my work is liked is Because I catch the unaffected pose of the child. A grown person Is nearly always affected. Often the limbs I sow fulfilled her youthful promise by winning en- Louis are those of the children of Mr. and Mrs.

Is worthy of reprinting: Crimean War. fell Into a nap of a few moments nized as one of the slncerest poets of America. Five of the Potters are spending the summer and body have been twisted awry oy namis oi unnatural sitting, just as the expression of the face has become artificial by long-continued mask- one day with his long white beard spread over his bare breast Preferring to earn her own living, she declines to accept an allowance from her father. She is trance to the Paris Salon with a rraceful sculp- ured design entitled "La Petite Nymphe de la tllviere de Nohaln." She Is Miss Caroline Everett bisque, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Ferdinand W. illSQue of 4021 Morgan street, St Louis. It was Claude S. Kennerly, Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph W. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Stoner, Mr. and Mrs.

Sam Plant and Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Cvimmings.

Several of her statuettes and small pieces in bisque were admired at the recent exhibition of abroad Miss Sombart, the Parish girls. Miss Teasdale and Miss Risque, who wiil pass V3ral ironths in Italian art galleries. I'm always In the corner. Or else I'm put to bed; "The most bad child she ever saw," That's what my nursie sail. Ing of the feelinrs.

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