SCUDDER, JANET. Medal at Columbian Exposition, 1893.  Two of her medallion portraits are in the Luxembourg, Paris.  Member of the National Sculpture Society, New York.  Born in Terre Haute, Indiana.  Pupil of Rebisso in Cincinnati, of Lorado Taft in Chicago, and of Frederic MacMonnies in Paris.

At the Chicago Exposition Miss Scudder exhibited two heroic-sized statues representing Illinois and Indiana.  The portraits purchased by the French Government are of American women and are the first work of an American woman sculptor to be admitted to the Luxembourg.  These medallions are in bas-relief in marble, framed in bronze.  Casts from them have been made in gold and silver.  The first is said to be the largest medallion ever made in gold; it is about four inches long.

[Illustration:  A FROG FOUNTAIN

JANET SCUDDER]

To the Pan-American Exposition Miss Scudder contributed four boys standing on a snail, which made a part of the “Fountain of Abundance.”  She has exhibited in New York and Philadelphia a fountain, representing a boy dancing hilariously and snapping his fingers at four huge frogs round his pedestal.  The water spurts from the mouths of the frogs and covers the naked child.

Miss Scudder is commissioned to make a portrait statue of heroic size for the St. Louis Exposition.  She will no doubt exhibit smaller works there.  Portraits are her specialty, and in these she has made a success, as is proved by the appreciation of her work in Paris.

A memorial figure in marble is in Woodlawn Cemetery, also a cinerary urn in stone and bronze; a bronze memorial tablet is in Union College.  Miss Scudder also made the seal for the Bar Association of New York.

SEARS, SARAH C. Medal at Chicago, 1893; William Evans prize, American Water-Color Society, New York; honorable mention, Paris Exposition, 1900; bronze medal at Buffalo, 1901; silver medal at Charleston, South Carolina.  Member of the New York Water-Color Club, Boston Art Students’ Association, National Arts Club, Boston Water-Color Club.  Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Pupil of Ross Turner, Joseph de Camp, Edmund C. Tarbell, and George de Forest Brush.  Mrs. Sears has also studied by herself with the criticism of masters.

She paints portraits, figures, and flowers, and is much interested in the applied arts.  Of her exhibition at the Boston Art Club, 1903, a critic writes:  “Nothing could be more brilliant in point of color than the group of seven water-color pictures of a sunny flower-garden by Mrs. Sears.  In these works pure and limpid color has been pushed to its extreme capacity, under full daylight conditions, with a splendor of brightness which never crosses the line of crudity, but holds the same relative values as we see in nature, the utmost force of local color courageously set forth and contrasted without apparent artifice, blending into an harmonious unity of tone.  Two of these pictures are especially fine, with their cool backgrounds of sombre pines to set off the magnificent masses of flowers in the foreground.”