KERAMIC STUDIO 
We in America have felt the artistic influence of China 
more and more each year. While we have been giving her 
Christianity she has given us art, or a certain conception of 
art that seems to have converted our designers much more 
easily than we have converted the "heathen Chinee." Step 
into an interior decorator's studio and you will find that the 
Chinese influence is featured quite as much as the Colonial 
(cherished child of the American decorator's heart). Look at 
the newest jewelry, embroidery, lamps, rugs, wall-coverings, 
draperies, pictures, furniture, even clothes, and what do you 
see? The Chinese influence, of course! Why are we using 
old blue and gold in our homes in place of the grays and pinks 
or the buffs and whites that formerly accompanied our Windsor 
chairs and pie-crust tables? The Chinese influence again. 
There is a wealth of inspiration for the china decorator in 
Chinese art. And what could be more appropriate than a Chi- 
nese motif or design upon a material which China discovered 
and which to this day bears her name? 
New York is to have a museum entirely devoted to the 
American Indian. It will house the George S. Heye collection 
of 400,000 specimens relative to the history of the North and 
South American Indians. It will be rich in pottery, weaving, 
bead embroidery, and carving. 
The Boston Society of Etchers has recently been organ- 
ized with thirty-two members, each seriously engaged in the 
work. Mr. George T. Plowman is the president. 
A Memorial exhibition of the paintings by the late John 
J. Enneking, Boston's well loved landscape painter, was so well 
attended that it was prolonged weekly. The painter's widow 
sat at the catalogue table at certain hours, and graciously an- 
swered questions about her husband's canvases. Beside the 
table hung his palette, just as he put it down, thickly covered 
with little hills and valleys of paint in every conceivable tint 
and shade. "I think he loved his chromatic studies best," 
said Mrs. Enneking in reply to my question, "Those were the 
last that he worked upon. He always loved the last best." 
And she indicated one of those misty, blue "symphonic poems" 
that intellectual Boston has raved over. At the banquet given 
the old painter not long ago at the Copley Plaza and attended 
by over 1000 of the artistic people of Boston, he was literally 
crowned with a laurel wreath. 
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EXHIBIT OF MRS. WILLIAMS 
DUQUESNE CERAMIC CLUB EXHIBIT, NOVEMBER, J9J6 
