for the features for the production of the high finish required in a miniature.  Mural painting is beginning to attract women, and with their love for beautiful homes they must soon excel in this branch and bring decorative art to a fuller perfection.

One of the crowning glories of this exposition is that it has brought to the few American artists living at home the opportunity to study the salient characteristics of the schools of the various countries exhibiting at the St. Louis Exposition.

Twenty-four countries exhibited in the Fine Arts Department and contributed to Groups IX and X 5,468 pictures from nearly 1,500 professional artists, of which number not more than 300 were women (289) and fully half this number were represented by their work in the United States section.  The number of awards bestowed in the United States section was 41 to women exhibitors against 239 to men.  The total number given in the foreign sections, collectively, was 17 to women against 398 to men.  No work executed prior to the Chicago Exposition was in competition for award.

    EXHIBITS BY WOMEN IN THE VARIOUS SECTIONS OF GROUPS IX AND X.

United States:  Oil paintings, 64; water colors, 41; mural paintings, 6; miniatures, 42.  Argentina:  Oil painting (by Julia Wernicke), 1.  Belgium:  Oil paintings, 21; water colors, 6.  Ceylon:  Oil paintings, 2.  Italy:  Oil paintings, 9; water colors, 2.  Nicaragua:  Oil painting (Miss Andrea Garcia), 1.  Portugal:  Oil paintings, 4.  Sweden:  Oil paintings, 6.  England:  Oil paintings, 16; water colors, 13; drawings, 10.  Austria:  Oil paintings, 3.  Canada:  Oil paintings, 10; water colors, 2.  Holland:  Oil paintings, 21.  Japan:  Oil paintings, 5.  Peru:  Oil painting (Miss Amalia Franco), 1.  Russia:  Oil paintings, 15; water colors, 15.  France:  Oil paintings, 19; water colors, 17.  The two last-named countries (France and England) did not exhibit in any department for awards.

    List of honors conferred by the international jury of awards
    upon women artists exhibiting in the Department of Fine Arts of
    the Louisiana Purchase Exposition: 

    United States section.—­Group IX, gold medal:  Cecelia Beaux,
    Lucia Fairchild Fuller, Laura C. Hills, Theodora W. Thayer. 
    Silver medal:  Adelaide Cole Chase, Louise Cox, Helen Emmet,
    Lidia F. Emmet, Rosina E. Sherwood, Janet Wheeler, Mary S.
    Green, Elizabeth Nourse, Violet Oakley, Sara C. Sears, Susan
    Watkins.  Bronze medal:  Ellen Witherald Ahrens, Martha S. Baker,
    Alice Beckington, Emma Lampert Cooper, Mary C. Dickson, Elinor
    Earle, Adele Herter, Emma Kipling Hess, Margaret Kendall, Anna
    E. Klumpke, Clara T. MacChesney, Rhoda Holmes Nicholls, Mabel
    Packard, Pauline Palmer, Lilla Cabot Perry, Alice T. Searle,
    Amanda Brewster Sewell, Mariana Sloan, Letta C. Smith, Mary Van
    der Veer, A.B.  Wing, Louise Wood.  Group X, silver medal: 
    Charlotte Harding, Jessie Willcox Smith.  Bronze medal:  Maud
    Alice Cowles, Elizabeth Shippen Green.