RERAMIC STUDIO 
37 
Wood Safford 
EXHIBITION OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY 
OF CERAMIC ARTS 
THE new galleries of the National Arts Club on Gram- 
ercy Park are well fitted to show off to the best advan- 
tage the work of our ceramic decorators and potters. And 
the exhibit this year, though small, seemed quite at home 
in its surroundings. We missed the work of several of our 
best decorators but nevertheless much was to be seen highly 
creditable to the Society. Perhaps the most unique exhibit, 
because so simple and unpretentious, was that of Mrs. Sara 
Wood Safford. All that her case contained was two sets 
of table ware, one a breakfast set in silver and white, 
the other a lunch set in silver and celadon, each tastefully 
arranged on a tray of grey wood which harmonized com- 
pletely. The designs were simple, abstract units repeated 
as a border, drawn free-hand and good in every way. The 
sort of tableware one could live with forever and not come 
to blows. 
The Misses Mason had the largest showing of important 
pieces. The framed landscape and the vase decorated 
with the same motif made an interesting study, while the 
tableware was more individual and clever than ever. Al- 
most every form, vases, bowls, cracker jars, tea jars and 
steins, had been made from designs furnished to potters by 
Miss Maud Mason herself. The bowl decorated with a ship 
design in gold on white was specially nice in^outline and 
the spotting of the design. 
Of the many interesting plates, the narrow border by 
Miss Bessie Mason in gold, silver, black and turquoise blue 
was especially well proportioned and nice in color. The 
fish plate in celadon on white had a clever Japanese effect 
and in fact all the plates illustrated were clever and unusual. 
The little tea jar designed by Miss Mason was much 
in evidence in several exhibits, and seems to adapt itself 
well to decoration. 
It was interesting to note in the exhibit of Mrs. Henri- 
etta Barclay Paist, several of the designs published in her 
edited number of Keramic Studio (January) carried out 
in gold and color. It was to be regretted also that her 
showing was not larger. 
Mrs. Anna B. Leonard's case held many pieces of table- 
ware good in design and color. We note especially the 
large chop dish, and plates in blue and green. 
Especially noteworthy was the exhibit of Miss Caro- 
line Hoffman, a new member, whose work was perhaps 
the most original of any in design and color. Throughout 
the other exhibits one could plainly note the influence of 
the prevailing ideas in ceramic design, either a running 
to the extreme of abstract forms or a semi-naturalistic 
treatment showing Japanese influence, certain color schemes 
following one school or another. The work of Miss Hoff- 
Caroliue Hofman 
Mary Hicks 
