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WOMAN IN ART was conferred honorable mention, 1910. Another, standing in the attitude of prayer, is in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York.

Many honors and prizes have come to this artist, among them the silver medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, 1915; the same year she received from the French Government the Purple Rosette with Palm. She was awarded a gold medal from the Plastic Club, 1916; the Saltus Medal, National Academy of Design, 1920; the Legion of Honor, 1922, and was elected a National Academician in 1923.

A bronze lion stretching out and yawning proves himself in a natural mood rather than a posed model. "White Horses of the Sea" is a novel idea that Miss Hyatt worked out most gracefully. It represents a huge wave rolling in, its foam formed of the heads and manes of a phalanx of white horses. In the Gorham Gallery was seen a fountain where a nymph, holding aloft a garland of flowers, is laughing at a trio of doves perched on it; one on the brink is drinking, a dainty device.

On March 10, 1923, Miss Hyatt was married to Archer M. Huntington, LL.D., founder and president of the Hispanic Society of America.

When preparing Jackson Park to receive the World's Columbian Fair in Chicago, 1892, there was a group of capable, busy women working on the adornments for the Woman's Building before the structure was ready for them. Among them Enid Yandell, of Louisville, Kentucky, was working out her idea of supports for the entablature on the second story of the balcony. From the ancient Greeks she borrowed the idea of caryatids being the supports, and for that purpose modeled and made strong yet graceful figures which added greatly to the beauty and dignity of the facade of the building.

Enid Yandell is the daughter of Dr. Lundsford Pitts and Louise Eliston Yandell, born in Louisville, 1870. She is a graduate of the Cincinnati Art School, pupil of Philip Martiny in New York and of MacMonnies and Auguste Rodin in Paris. She was decorated at the Académié by the French Government in 1906; was awarded the Designer's Medal at Columbian Fair in 1893; has exhibited frequently at the Paris Salon since 1895; received the Silver Medal at the Nashville Exposition in 1897, honorable mention at the Pan-American in 1901, and bronze medal at St. Louis, 1904.

In 1907 Miss Yandell organized the Branstock School of Art, Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Her works have been numerous: the Carrie Brown Memorial Fountain, Providence, Rhode Island, 1900; a 232