“ She has an intense earnestness, combined with a natural woman's gift of understanding without analysis From a delicate water-color of Venetian landscape with local color and atmosphere to a study of lions, her range is seen. A striking characteristic possessed by Miss Hawes is her memory. An idea once worked out never leaves her remembrance. While she prefers landscape, with an occasional excursion into the field of still life, as evidenced by her lion pictures, she yet has done a great deal in decorative work. ”

“ Miss Hawes, both as woman and artist, is a person of marked individuality. She has been an artist from her infancy. In childhood "she painted whatever she saw, and frequently what her imagination saw. There are treasured still in her family several quaint landscapes and animal studies, painted by the eight year -old girl before she had had a lesson, either in painting or drawing The first landscape she painted under the eye of a teacher illustrates her singular gifts. ”

“ Many of her tapestries and screens are exquisite, and all of them show originality and artistic merit Though she has given the greater part of her life to art, she is distinguished for achievements in other fields. ”