Vol. XVII, No. 1. 
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK 
May 1915 
HIS month Keramic Studio is Sweet 
Sixteen. We wish you and our- 
selves many happy returns of the 
day. May our shadow never grow 
less! The ceramic sisterhood have 
two more honors to add to their list 
Mrs. Dorothea Warren O'Hara has 
lately received Honorary Mention 
for crafts work by the National So- 
ciety of Craftsmen, and the editor, 
Mrs. Robineau, has just received the Bronze Medal of the 
Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, also for craftswork. She 
is also much gratified to hear that her exhibit of porcelains in 
the Arts and Crafts section of the Panama Exposition is 
attracting much attention. 
K » 
We have photographs of the work of several societies and 
schools still on hand to be shown in Keramic Studio. It is un- 
fortunate that many are so late in being shown, but we have not 
the space to give them all at once, especially as the naturalistic 
contingent of the ceramic workers have not come to our support, 
since we have gone to the added expense of the extra naturalistic 
supplement, in sufficient numbers to warrant our publishing 
extra pages for this purpose. We hope that these trying times 
will not last much longer and that ceramic workers of every kind 
will flock to our standard, making it possible for us to add the 
other improvements that we have in mind. We are hoping be- 
fore long to be^in a series of articles on the ceramic work at the 
exposition. If the editor had been able to go to California as 
planned, she would have written them herself. We are trying 
to make arrangements with some one else to furnish items of 
interest in the ceramic line. 
K H 
It has been a serious disappointment to give up the Four 
Winds Summer School, but the editor found that it interfered 
too much with her own work, and every moment counts in a 
craft so long and arduous. Mrs. Cherry, however, will teach 
in San Francisco this summer and in other places in the west, so 
that students will not lose the opportunity of working with her 
if they so desire. 
K K 
We will have to again ask contributors not to send any more 
designs until notified in these columns. We are deluged with 
contributions and must lower our stock before we can accept 
any more. Our only need at present is for the naturalistic sec- 
tion. It seems very difficult to find studies of flowers that are 
at the same time dainty, well drawn, and adapted with any 
originality. So few decorators of striking ability still use this 
style that we are forced to give some very inferior things from 
time to time in order to fill the eight supplement sheets. We 
will do the best we can in this line, however, though there seems 
to be but a small number comparatively doing this work, judg- 
ing by the limited number of subscriptions we receive from 
purely naturalistic workers. 
M H 
The opening of the French building at the San Francisco 
Panama Exposition calls our attention to the curious fact that 
France only of the five great nations at war has kept her prom- 
ise, and has made an exhibit surpassing the efforts of all former 
years. We give below an excerpt from a San Francisco paper 
giving part of the opening speech of the French Commissioner: 
"In this national pavilion, which is a reproduction of the 
Palace of the Legion of Honor, and which has been reproduced 
by means of special molds made in Paris and erected here within 
a few months through the genius of our architect, Henri Guil- 
laume, we desire to present an expression of French art and 
genius. We have loaded on the Jason, which I hope will soon 
pass through the Golden Gate, a veritable artistic treasure chest 
filled from our museums. Gobelin tapestries, Savonnerie car- 
pets, furniture from the Mobilier National, all will evoke the 
past. 
"On the other hand, the labors of our architects and of our 
decorators will demonstrate the creative effort of which our 
modern artists are capable, and the canvases of our masters will 
show the evolution which our art has accomplished during the 
latter part of the nineteenth century, finding its ultimate ex- 
pression in the paintings and sculpture exhibited in the Palace 
of Fine Arts. Moreover, a library, selected with care, will show 
you French genius in the various domains of thought. Lastly, 
numerous relics will recall memories which are dear to our two 
countries, for they cause to live again the time when our two 
peoples wrote together one of the most beautiful pages of their 
history." 
China painters have a peculiar interest in French art, since 
through the French the western art of porcelain making and 
decorating came to exist. No doubt there will be in the present 
exhibit many beautiful porcelains, ancient as well as modern, 
and all who attend the fair will do well to include the French 
Building in their sightseeing. 
STUDIO NOTES 
Mrs. Kathryn E. Cherry will begin her western tour June 
1st, and will stop at St. Paul, Minn., and Lincoln, Neb., on her 
way to San Francisco and Seattle. There may be other towns 
on the schedule which will be mentioned in the next number of 
Keramic Studio. 
Miss May E. Reynolds of Chicago, 111., is to be in San 
Francisco in the early summer with headquarters at Dorn's 
Studio, 251 Post St., where she will have an unusual exhibit. 
Miss Reynolds is already well known to the lovers of ceramic 
art in San Francisco. 
Mr. Edw. F. Christman, general representative from the 
Coover Studios has just returned to Lincoln from an extended 
trip to the Pacific Coast. He tells of the increasing interest 
in better work in conventional decoration and how it is coming 
into greater demand through the progressive studios in Texas, 
New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, etc. In California interest is 
centered on the Exposition. The displays at the Palace of 
Varied Industries and the California Building certainly show 
conventional work at its best. Mr. Christian expects to make 
the trip to the Northwest and revisit the Exposition cities in 
the summer. 
