The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . childrens BrjILDIN(i. 448 womans department. the staff upon its exterior, and the plaster and canvases for thepainting, etc., upon the interior. At the end of the gallery of honorare two mural paintings, each fourteen feet wide by fifty-eight feetlong. Miss Cassat is the artist of one, representing Modern Wo-men, and Mrs. MacMonnies of the other, representing PrimitiveWomen. On each side are two panel paintings, also by womenartists, and of decided merit. Those on the south side represent a group of Puri- tan maidens, paint-ed by Mrs. Sher-wood
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . childrens BrjILDIN(i. 448 womans department. the staff upon its exterior, and the plaster and canvases for thepainting, etc., upon the interior. At the end of the gallery of honorare two mural paintings, each fourteen feet wide by fifty-eight feetlong. Miss Cassat is the artist of one, representing Modern Wo-men, and Mrs. MacMonnies of the other, representing PrimitiveWomen. On each side are two panel paintings, also by womenartists, and of decided merit. Those on the south side represent a group of Puri- tan maidens, paint-ed by Mrs. Sher-wood, and hersister. Miss Em-mett, while thoseon the north sideare the work ofMrs. Fairchild andMrs. Sewell. Thedrapings betweenthe panels and endpaintings are ofgold-colored cloth,forming an effec-tive background forthe canvases. Abroad gold friezesurrounds the gal-lery, and on thepanels between thearches are in-scribed the namesof famous library cell-. A CORNER IN THE) I^IBRARY—WOMANS BUII^DING. ing was decorated by Mrs. Dora Wheeler Keith, the centralgroup consisting of two male figures and one female figure,representing Science, Romance and Imagination. The four cor-ner paintings illustrate four departments of literature, while the WOMANS DEPARTMENT. 449 whole design is connected by a band of small winged cupids andcherubs, twining garlanded wreaths of fiowers with the floweringdraperies. In this room are bocks by the women authors of tlieworld, and autographs, on screens, of many of the most famous
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