Art: Christ on Cape Cod

Women and art do not seem to mix well. The top ranks of American painters include only two women—Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe—and few countries can boast even that much female talent. Nevertheless, with the increasing leisure of American womanhood and the enticement of painting as a hobby, women have an invitation to become popular artists. Grandma Moses has proved it possible, on a grand scale. And now Cape Cod's Alice Stallknecht, a spry, sturdy widow of 77, is seconding the nomination.

Easterner Stallknecht has had her greatest success in the West, with a traveling show this summer that went to Colorado...