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Art Lovers Of New Ulm
Are Entertained By Womans Literary Club.
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Seventy ladies of New Ulm enjoyed a social evening at the Masonic Hall Saturday evening, when the Women's Literary Club of this city were hostesses. The evening was especially entertaining because Miss Grace E. Me Kinstry of San Francisco, Cal, who is a renowned portrait painter was present and gave a lecture. Miss Mc Kinstry used lantern slides with her lecture and her address linked the European art with the present day art, showing the contrast. She also dwelt on the good points of the modern day artists and used as one illustration Winslow Homer.
Well Known Here
Miss McKinstry is not unknown in Minnesota. She has made herself famous in this state thru painting of portraits of prominent Minnesotans. Having studied abroad and maintained studios in Paris, Germany, Holland, Italy and England, she has gathered a most wonderful education in art. She fully explained the studios of the various countries and the guests enjoyed seeing pictures of about 50 of her own productions which included pictures of Indian women in Mexico, Dutch boys, Spanish girls, interiors of Dutch homes, etc. Among the prominent people in this state whom Miss McKinstry has done portraits for are: The Late Gov. Johnson, Bishop Whipple and Bishop Gilbert, Maria Sanford of the University of Minnesota,President Strong of Carleton College and other professors of that institution. Today the paintings of Miss McKinstry are hanging in the best American colleges, the Metropolitan Art gallery in New York and also in Chicago, and in our own state in Minneapolis.
Entertain Clubs
During the past year the Literary Club members have been studying art and it is thru their efforts that Miss McKinstry was brought to New Ulm to address the women of the city, including members of the Alpha Delphian Chapter and the Current News Club, school teachers and others who were interested.
A program of musical numbers given by local talent was greatly en-joyed. Light refreshments were serve d by the hostesses at the close of a delightful evening.
New Ulm Review,
October 21, 192