Show I t ra b o In i. i r r Impressive Record 7 Made a e by American m 1 V Women e Artists s sn s in the r Open n Competition I J t. t Established by the k t t 1 j. j C Electrical r Companies j I t tr a l r r rI Jr I L T- T 1 a sw b J 4 r l r. t m t. t t ii f 1 11 I t. t 1 0 t r r l I 11 W 1 Gwendolyn Bjorncrantz Chicago t f j y j I 1 R C I 1 J i 1 J V f yam r k e eA ek t A k j ja a k r c r r r f r rj j. j r. I n 1 Helen E E. Tur nand Toronto CaE Can ry z r 1 a 0 mot t tr r r i p 1 44 Y r Z r r z ry Elise Moyer N New ew York HE type of scientist who dis- dis disI THE I covers covers only the unprepossessing sing spinster In fields of ot enI endeavor endeavor en I deavor where men have ruled has bas need to readjust his binoculars I Somo Some months ago tho great electrical cal companies of oC America asked tho the Industrial artists of this country to create a poster portra portraying electricity Rich cash prizes were vero offered It was calculated that perhaps hero here and there thero a feminine hand might try for tor fame and money In a commercial field entirely dominated by men It was the first national art test which established equality equality- between men and women and the tho first to provide pro vide the women with a subject which the they knew v. Here is the record of ot what tho the women did and how beauty and youth entered the lists and vin In vindicated vindicated the recent statement of a Chicago professor that five years from now would find the tn typical American girl equal to the typical American boy bor In any test of ot equal it ity Just posters were posters were entered for prizes aggregating 2200 Of Ot this number 3 2 posters were done by women although the word woman I is perhaps too general and inadequate inadequate quate when applied to the T I. I L 11 f 4 14 4 t i 4 f J y s r a 7 i 4 Margaret l morrison i Gertrude Quick Oakland Gal Cal t i k St St. Louis few fen months 64 designs were won I Iby by br women The purpose of or the cont contest was wa to stimulate poster art in the tho schools and academies of America and to provide a practical test to compare tho the skill of or tho younger oun er artists with the best works done by the leading artists of or the countr country The Society for Electrical Development offered 2200 In prizes to encourage practical cal work by br the younger artists and pledged the competitors that the poster poster pos ter selected by a Jury fury of ot six Judges presided over by John Adams president of or the municipal art commission commission com com- mission of or New Ne- York would be bo reproduced reproduced re re- produced moro more than times as the advertising emblem of ot the national national na na- na celebration of ot Americas Electrical Electrical Electrical Elec Elec- Week Dec 2 to 9 The design which won the grand prize pictures a modern Aladdin pressing an electrical button In place of ot the tho of the Arabian Nights who was able to derive comforts of ot life by rubbing his magic lamp Is the date up-to-date Aladdin who summons J l lZ lo R o Y Z r r I W I r rY y c t ILIF 4 1 fri II 1 I O 0 d r e IJ i j 1 II I J e 1 7 X i io 1 I o I e R 9 i p 4 v Edna G G. Morgan Denver Colo tu galaxy pictured d on this page About one-fourth one of ot the prizes were won by feminine artists and more than one half of ot the designs which the tho Judges deemed worthy worth of special diplomas were bestowed upon women competitors Of Ot the designs finally selected for dl display In institutes of art public libraries and art clubs throughout the tho United States during the next 1 rr J w y I X 7 i Li tv q k r r if J t YR H HM r l i j 11 51 i fy J Lf 3 f. f i v 4 r. r t M M. V. V Holland Eva A. A Martin Marti Gertrude De Brau Bran Catherine H H. Anderson Providence K R I I. I Denver Colo Cumberland Md Brooklyn N. N Y Louise Bauman New York City all the tho present-day present comforts of or electrIcity electricity elec glee by bj touching a button The rhe l idea ea of or Ala Aladdin ran through many of the posters by br women artists art art- although the prize Aladdin was t the he work of or a af a man Harold von Schmidt of or San Francisco Among Amon 1 the young your n whose works were L 1 singled out because of or exceptional r F merit and who received special d 1 awards were a Evelyn Cl Clyne ne Full Fullwood wood Los Ange Ange- AngeE E I I J JJ f J lea Irs 5 Hazel S S. S Halstead 1 Ocean Park Cal Belen Eelen Lopez San Sim Gabriel Cal Vera J J. J Limbau h and Frances Rob Rob- Robinson h r inson San Francisco Margaret 1 AI Ale Aleander Alex Alexander ander and ond Edna G G. Morgan nn Denver Helen hIelen de do Vore Miller Chicago Mar Mar Caret D. D Kuehl foline Ill Margaret Margaret Mar Mar- garet arel Ott OU Indianapolis Alice Alico Me- Me MeKee Ic- Ic Kee Kee Des Moines Luclle Lucile Quinn Atlanta Atlanta At At- f lanta Emily Mary Mar Freret and Rita Fishel New Orleans Gertrude Du flu DuBrau Brau Cumberland Md Stella Loughren Car Mich Uch Florence Floronce Flor ence once R. R Myers Conklin lin Mich Catherine Cath- Cath j jence erine crine H. H Andresen Brooklyn N No y 1 Y Robinson Elmer Elise Rachel G G. G i r Moyer Gertrude Quick Marie B. B l Rother Gertrude Schneider Helen 1 and Rose Bonheur Simon Simone New e York city Elizabeth B. B Sill SIU r f v t t j if i 1 Vera Josephi Limbaugh San Francisco Cal i k l li i 1 ro J J r 1 I 4 iJ Ld 5 Mildred K Peretz Pittsburgh Pa f v x r rr rl l r q t t w r t t tAlice JL i H i I F r a rf y hA K d ti r I Alice McKee Des Moines Ia la i Youngstown oun 0 O P Paula lula H. H Balano Balang 1 Lansdowne ansdowne Pa Mildred I I K f Pittsburgh Mary W W. W Bonsall Phila i iel el elphia hia Anne AntIC Ore Jr Nashville f nd ml Margaret I Stratton Washington r LC C. C j 4 |