Hot Springs Weekly Star, October 16, 1896.

Mildred Howells

Clever with Brush and Pen.

Mildred Howells, daughter of William Dean Howells, is a clever art student of Gotham. Miss Howells has her studio in the very heart of the art students' colony in New York. The "colony" is that section of the city extending across the whole width of Central Park and downtown as far as 50th street. The Art League is in the center and the students group around it. It is the Latin quarter of New York.

MILDRED HOWELLS.

Miss Howells has a studio in her father's apartments facing Central Park. She works dally with her brushes, for art is her profession as literature is her father's. Miss Howells, after a long course of study In Paris, Rome and London, began by illustrating her father's poems. Her tail-pieces attracted attention, and the cleverness with which she caught the conception of the work made friends for her with writers. Not all artists can get the "tone" of the work they illustrate, even while they draw well. Miss Howells' work appears regularly in the highest class of magazines, and site has settled down to the profession of regular illustrative work. Miss Howells has written some clever sketches and poems and is regarded as one who has a literary future.

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Clever with Brush and Pen, Hot Springs Weekly Star, Hot Springs, S.D.,October 16, 1896. (PDF)