Women

In Manhattan, the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors opened their annual exhibition. Observers noted that the main difference between this exhibition and that of any capable group of males was that women show themselves less ambitious to carry out elaborate compositions, more devoted to vivacious first impressions. Partly because of this lack of sustained composition, partly because of a certain modesty of attempt in many of the pictures, there seemed to be in this, as in other women's exhibitions, a note of apology. The most impressive work in painting and drawing was a portrait study in oil and several charcoal heads by Cecilia Beaux, "dean of feminists in Art";* in sculpture, by Malvina Hoffman, who took a prize with her bust of Paderewski.