Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . agement did muchto make pictures popular. From the first a studio was maintained at Hull-House which has developed through the changingyears under the direction of Miss Benedict, one ofthe residents who is a member of the faculty in theArt Institute. Buildings on the Hull-House quad-rangle furnish studios for artists who find somethingof the same spirit in the contiguous Italian colonythat the French artist is traditionally supposed todiscover in his beloved Latin Quarter. Theseartists uncover something of the picturesque in theforeign
Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . agement did muchto make pictures popular. From the first a studio was maintained at Hull-House which has developed through the changingyears under the direction of Miss Benedict, one ofthe residents who is a member of the faculty in theArt Institute. Buildings on the Hull-House quad-rangle furnish studios for artists who find somethingof the same spirit in the contiguous Italian colonythat the French artist is traditionally supposed todiscover in his beloved Latin Quarter. Theseartists uncover something of the picturesque in theforeign colonies, which they have reproduced inpainting, etching, and lithography. They findtheir classes filled not only by young people pos-sessing facility and sometimes talent, but also byolder people to whom the studio affords the one 374 TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE opportunity of escape from dreariness; a widowwith four children who supplemented a very inade-quate Income by teaching the piano, for six yearsnever missed her weekly painting lesson because it. cc was her one pleasure; another woman whoseyouth and strength had gone into the care of aninvalid father, poured into her afternoon in thestudio once a week, all of the longing for self-ex-pression which she habitually suppressed. Perhaps the most satisfactory results of the studio ARTS AT HULL-HOUSE 375 have been obtained through the classes of youngmen who are engaged in the commercial arts, andwho are glad to have an opportunity to work outtheir own ideas. This is true of young engraversand lithographers ; of the men who have to do withposters and illustrations in various ways. Thelittle pile of stones and the lithographers hand-press in a corner of the studio have been used inmany an experiment, as has a set of beautifultype loaned to Hull-House by a bibliophile. The work of the studio almost imperceptiblymerged into the crafts and well within the firstdecade a shop was opened at Hull-House underthe direction of several re
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