Miss G. A. Cowles designed a memorial window and a decorative border for the chancel of St. Michael’s Church, Brooklyn.  Together with her sister, she designed a window in the memory of the Deaconess, Miss Stillman, in Grace Church, New York City.  These sisters now execute many windows and other decorative work for churches, and also superintend the making and placing of the windows.

Regarding their work in the Chapel of Christ Church, New Haven, Miss Genevieve Cowles writes me:  “These express the Prayer of the Prisoner, the Prayer of the Soul in Darkness, and the Prayer of Old Age.  These are paintings of states of the soul and of deep emotions.  The paintings are records of human lives and not mere imagination.  We study our characters directly from life.”

These artists are now, November, 1903, engaged upon a landscape frieze for a dining-room in a house at Watch Hill.

Miss Genevieve Cowles writes:  “We feel that we are only at the beginning of our life-work, which is to be chiefly in mural decoration and stained glass.  I desire especially to work for prisons, hospitals, and asylums—­for those whose great need of beauty seems often to be forgotten.”

COWLES, MAUD ALICE. Twin sister of Genevieve Cowles.  Bronze medal at Paris Exposition, 1900, and a medal at Buffalo, 1901.  Her studies were the same as her sister’s, and she is a member of the same societies.  Indeed, what has been said above is equally true of the two sisters, as they usually work on the same windows and decorations, dividing the designing and execution between them.

COX, LOUISE—­MRS. KENYON COX. Third Hallgarten prize, National Academy of Design; bronze medal, Paris Exposition, 1900; silver medal at Buffalo, 1901; medal at Charleston, 1902; Shaw Memorial prize, Society of American Artists, 1903.  Member of Society of American Artists, and an associate of the Academy of Design.  Born at San Francisco, 1865.  Studies made at Academy of Design, Art Students’ League, under C. Turner, George de Forest Brush, and Kenyon Cox.

Mrs. Cox paints small decorative pictures and portraits, mostly of children.  The Shaw prize was awarded to a child’s portrait, called “Olive.”  Among other subjects she has painted an “Annunciation,” the “Fates,” and “Angiola,” reproduced in this book.

[Illustration:  From a Copley Print.

ANGIOLA

LOUISE COX]

A writer in the Cosmopolitan says:  “Mrs. Cox is an earnest worker and her method is interesting.  Each picture is the result of many sketches and the study of many models, representing in a composite way the perfections of all.  For the Virgin in her ‘Annunciation’ a model was first posed in the nude, and then another draped, the artist sketching the figure in the nude, draping it from the second model.  The hands are always separately sketched from a model who has a peculiar grace in folding them naturally.”