The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1901, Page 15

o THE SUNDAY CALL. 1 'éonheur 7 Ut orld ferred instead to draw. On every book many friends and is not an and blank feaf, every plece 0f paper were any sense of the word, she is s pictures—landscapes, houses, cows, horses Moreover, in spite of her arti —anything and everything in the way of ament, there has been no :tures, but her pet subject scemed to be ce On the margin of her hmetic, e roma all around the pictures of the village d in her blacksmith ip the Reader, wer s—whole process| g, scrambling, pigs n zle; and other anim: too, some of them entirely unknown to the world of sclence, strange looking creatures, but all in proportion, were drawn. Later, when her mother be inches to the length of her s . tied blue ribbons on her dignifl guerite braids, her chief delight visit the Zoo. The old Woodw. dens was a favorite reso ace. and the artists abroad and those cketched lions in all the ho have seen her most recent work here d that even at that time e taking off their hats to Matilda Lotz iy js gy very pronounced Lotz is a‘Southern girl, born in Ten- geeimeq to possess a sort e. but a Califcrnian by adeption. foY guence oy the - animal brought to ¢ while onlY could, and fréquently did ; a be in arms, so she claims to be & Na- {hrough the bars to pat the beasts with tive of our Staté. g perfect ty The carly education of this artist WO ~ Ag the years passed and her love for art animal life with such .realiSm gig not abate. it was decided by her par- zleaned here, where in the school- g her a course room the little miss was at once the de- Lere in San Frane and despair of her te acher D old P under Vir, . because she was so deliciously dro iams, and immediately made zre despair. because, like all artists. she Te- yees At an exhibition of the loc fused point blank to cudgel her Dbrain per picture of a horse captured th aver the math tical problem whether meda) offered by Mr.. William Alvord iwo and iwo made four or She pre- 1 excellence. Ther t Mr. - Williams and a critics the y ' O S TFrancisco i is lhe 8 CO e maid In ce of her life is p ) stand_docil ake rapic instruction. o she studicd of de Ps Miss Lotz studied f time in the Julian Academ) Marcke, but her work, u an Ma who is renowne s colorist. seems to be influenc by a Bonheur. who, e fir . was to Miss Lotz a faithful fr 1 - } ¢ valuable adviser. Up to s = ) Bonheur's death the ‘ ) t firm wit Lotz to likes to k wed, fancy would be mueh-loved a now the wheel of fortune has her spin, and once more he needle is pointed to the place ere Sunny California spots the map Dame Fate, who turns this ed in her flight to 1 to genius in the the devotees of discovered S0 ess on this far end of the g for her has become al- t seldom has she deigned road. this gathering r hard work and ose application, which is ever the ac- been as bee door of fame tted. A student of ancisco girl, Matflda by the critics t statement trans- hrased means that she is woman painter of an- fe living. s taken off its hat now that only her to immortalize her name woman has taken her =3 MATILDA,, R Lotz O OnE OF HER A om TE MooELS ) and’ recreation where she mac and also painted some architecture, althot work_does not pictures. After stopped for a the Count Governmen the. Emper is work so much that h jon of a studio for her n he peror Francis ons anu picture: return to Joseph gave her has a numbe rs. Phebe Hears < been am. lent amon < ways been much ss of this ar calf, ane ate of Art, we sented (o the gallery by Ithough Miss Lotz t fr ked upon American comes 3 gayly decorated There IS a_po: months to her old home in Cailfornia, where she will make some studies of oup wood and fleld. HARRIET QUIMBY.