New York's Art Colony

The Lawrence Park colony consists of six painters, seven writers, and two architects, together with several residents....The painters are Will H Low, the decorator; William H Howe, the famous cattle painter; Otto H Bacher, artist in black and white.... Among the writers, Edmund Clarence Stedman, the banker-poet.... Mrs General Custer, the contributor and widow of famous Indian fighter.... Among the remaining company are Will W Kent, the architect ... for the new cathedral of St John the Divine; and William A Bates. - Theodore Dreiser, Metropolitan 6 November 1897