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166 gress then gave her the commission for the heroic statue of Admiral Farragut, now in Farragut Square, Washington. These are the only two statues that the United States Government has ordered of a woman.

This artist has executed ideal statues and several bust portraits of distinguished men. Of these the bust of Ezra Cornell is at Cornell University; that of Mayor Powell in the City Hall of Brooklyn, etc.

Hudson, Grace. Gold medal at Hopkins Institute, San Francisco; silver medal at Preliminary World's Fair Exhibition of Pacific States ; and medals and honorable mention at several California State exhibitions. Born in Potter Valley, California. Studied at Hopkins Art Institute, San Francisco, under Virgil Williams and Oscar Kunath.

Paints genre subjects, some of which are "Captain John," in National Museum; "Laughing Child," in C. P. Huntington Collection; "Who Comes?" in private hands in Denver, etc.

Mrs. Hudson's pictures of Indians, the Pomas especially, are very interesting, although when one sees the living article one wonders how a picture of him, conscientiously painted and truthful in detail, can be so little repulsive—or, in fact, not repulsive at all. At all events, Mrs. Hudson has no worthy rival in painting California Indians. If we do not sympathize with her choice of subjects, we are compelled to acknowledge that her pictures are full of interest and emphasize the power of this artist in keeping them above a wearisome commonplace.

Her Indian children are attractive, we must admit, and