Mrs. Normand executed decorative frescoes in the Royal Exchange, London, the subject being “Sir Richard Whittington and His Charities.”

In the past ten years she has exhibited “Mariana,” 1893; “Psyche at the Throne of Venus,” 1894; “Apollo and Daphne,” 1895; “Summer,” 1896; “Isabella,” 1897; “Diana and Calisto,” 1899; “Portrait of Marquis of Dufferin and Ava,” 1901; “Lady Winifred Renshaw and Son,” and the “Sirens,” 1903, which is a picture of three nude enchantresses, on a sandy shore, watching a distant galley among rocky islets.

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NOURSE, ELIZABETH. Medal at Chicago Exposition, 1903; Nashville Exposition, 1897; Carthage Institute, Tunis, 1897; elected associate of the Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1895; silver medal, Paris Exposition, 1900; elected Societaire des Beaux-Arts, 1901.  Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she began her studies, later going to the Julian Academy, under Boulanger and Lefebvre, and afterward studying with Carolus Duran and Henner.  This artist idealizes the subjects of every-day, practical life, and gives them a poetic quality which is an uncommon and delightful attainment.

At the Salon des Beaux-Arts, 1902, Miss Nourse exhibited “The Children,” “Evening Toilet of the Baby,” “In the Shade at Pen’march,” “Brother and Sister at Pen’march,” “The Madeleine Chapel at Pen’march.”  In 1903, “Our Lady of Joy, Pen’march,” “Around the Cradle,” “The Little Sister,” and “A Breton Interior.”

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OAKLEY, VIOLET. Member of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Water-Color Club, Plastic Club, Philadelphia.  Born in New Jersey, but has lived in New York, where she studied at the Art Students’ League under Carroll Beckwith.  Pupil of Collin and Aman-Jean in Paris and Charles Lasar in England; also in Philadelphia of Joseph de Camp, Henry Thouron, Cecilia Beaux, and Howard Pyle.

Miss Oakley has executed mural decorations, a mosaic reredos, and five stained-glass windows in the Church of All Saints, New York City, and a window in the Convent of the Holy Child, at Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania.

In the summer of 1903 she was commissioned to decorate the walls of the Governor’s reception room in the new Capitol at Harrisburg.  Before engaging in this work—­the first of its kind to be confided to an American woman—­Miss Oakley went to Italy to study mural painting.  She then went to England to thoroughly inform herself concerning the historical foundation of her subject, the history of the earliest days of Pennsylvania.  At Oxford and in London she found what she required, and on her return to America established herself in a studio in Villa Nova, Pennsylvania, to make her designs for “The Romance of the Founding of the State,” which is to be painted on a frieze five feet deep.  The room is seventy by thirty feet, and sixteen feet in height.

The decoration of this Capitol is to be more elaborate and costly than that of any other public edifice in the United States.  In mural decoration Miss Oakley will be associated with Edwin A. Abbey, but the Governor’s room is to be her work entirely, and will doubtless occupy her during several years.