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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 323
York City. He has received many prizes for his work, including the
Clark prize and many medals, both silver and bronze. His pictures have
sold readily and are owned by many private citizens and picture galleries.
George Starr Elwell developed a decided artistic bent in childhood,
which his parents encouraged by placing him under the tutelage of the
well-knoAvn artist, Henry Mosler, of Cincinnati, later of Paris. Mr.
Ehvell paints in both Avater-colors and oils, but his decided preference
is for the latter, in which he finds his best expression of pastoral scenes.
Several of his pictures adorn some of Sandusky's best homes and one
hangs in the Carnegie Library.
Elizabeth Nourse, Avhen but a young girl, Avent to Paris and entered
the Julian School. Her strong, vigorous dravA'ing astonished the artists
AVIIO criticised the student's Avork. "Since your drawing is so good,
Mademoiselle," said BoAA'langer, "it is better for you to rent a studio
and work alone; you will then develop your own style, uninfluenced by
academic training." Following his advice, she remained but three
months in the atelier of Julian. The royal academies of London, Berlin
and Copenhagen have exhibited her Avork, Avhich has been reproduced
in the leading art journals of the Old World as well as in our own.
One of Sandusky's women who ranks high in art is Mrs. Emma
Matern Weaver. At an early age she manifested a great talent for painting,
which had undoubtedly been inherited from her parents. Miss
Matern's first earnest work began at the Adelphi Academy of Brooklyn,
New York, where for the first year she ranked among the prize winners,
although there Avere many more advanced students in her class. Since
her marriage in 1897 she has been very active in her art work, producing
some of the most successful pictures during these years.
Wilder M. Darling, son of Joseph B. and Wealthy Darling, lived his
early life in Sandusky. When fourteen years of age he Avent to the Cincinnati
Art School and there Avas noticed especially by the AvorldrenoAvned
artist, Henry Mosler, Avho took Mr. Darling to Munich Avith
him and gave the lad a father's care and attention. The last ten years'
work shows his interest and sympathy in Dutch conditions and studies
of life in Brittany. To the delight of the American colony, of the eleven
pictures Avhich he recently sent to the salon, all were accepted and
seven "hung on the line." Katherine W. Darling, a sister of Wilder M.,
Avas born and reared in Sandusky, graduating from the high school in
the class of 1881. She attended Oberlin College for several years, and
Avhile there made a specialty of art. She Avent to NeAV York, Avhere she
took the complete course in art at Cooper's Institute. Then she entered
the Art League of NCAV York City and Avas a pupil under William Chase,
and studied nature with Mrs. Frank Scott, the noted floAver painter. She
became intensely interested in mission Avork and it"was Avhile teaching
a Sunday school in the slums of NeAV York that she became infected
with scarlet fever, and in tAvo AA'eeks Avas brought to her home for burial.
Her strong life Avas cut off just at the time when she had finished her
work in this country and Avas about to join her brother in Paris, where