People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1895 — ANATOMICAL DRAWINGS. [ARTICLE]

ANATOMICAL DRAWINGS.

A New York Woman Artist Accomplishes Wonders in a New Field. Miss Fannie Elkins, a New York artist, follows a unique line of art which has won her a World’s Fair medal and diploma, “awarded for accuracy, detail and beauty.” Miss Elkins makes anatomical drawings for physicians and surgeons who require such in delivering lectures or in illustrating medical books. To the outsider the work at once carries grewsome suggestions. Undoubtedly it is an odd occupation for a woman to choose. Miss Elkins, so far as can be discovered, is the only American woman who has succeeded in making a distinct profession of such drawing. Once within her studio the idea of grewsomeness is almost lost. The room is a pleasant square one, with a big window overlooking Fourteenth street and admitting a strong light to the table beneath. There are few of the manifold decorations and hangings which usually appear in studios, but the drawings, framed in oak and gilt upon the wall—part of her World’s Fair exhibit —are not at all alarming. Among these the human eye, much magnified, is represented under several aspects, gazing out from circular mats of white board. During the Transition Period. She —Er—George! He—W-well, Laura? She —I —l think we understand each other, George, but—but is it my place or yours to put the question, and ought I to speak to your mamma about it or ought you to go and ask papa?—Chicago Tribune.