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KERAMIC STUDIO 
ANITA GRAY CHANDLER 
7 Edison Avenue. Tufts College, Mass. 
Page Editor 
AT THE SIGN 
OF THE 
BRUSH AND PALETTE 
This is Ye Old Art Inn 
where the worker of Arts and 
Crafts may rest a bit and par- 
take of refreshment. 
SO many letters have come to the editor of this page asking- 
how to form clubs similar to the Art Lovers Club of Greater 
Boston that it has been decided to publish the constitution of 
the latter, so that those about to organize may be somewhat 
guided by the original club. It is suggested that the consti- 
tution be followed as closely as possible, since a federation of 
sister Art Lovers Clubs may be established at some future date. 
CONSTITUTION OF THE ART LOVERS CLUB 
Article I. Name — The name shall be The Art Lovers 
Club of Greater Boston. 
Article II. Purposes — The purpose of this club shall be: 
To obtain a better understanding of Art; to study good pictures, 
their stories, and their painters; to spread the Art Idea among 
others, especially young people and children, by means of pic- 
tures and stories. 
Article III. Meetings — Meetings shall be held on the 
second and fourth Thursdays of every month during the Club 
year, beginning the fourth Thursday in October and continuing 
for twelve meetings. These meetings are to be held for the 
present at the homes of the members, at three o'clock followed 
by a social hour with a simple tea furnished by the hostess. 
Article IV. Membership — Only those persons known to 
be lovers of Art, enthusiastic, congenial, and willing to work 
for the good of the Club and its purpose, will be considered for 
membership. A prospective member must be brought as a 
guest to one club meeting by a regular member who vouches 
for her desirability, before she may be voted upon by the club. 
There shall be twelve charter members. The total member- 
ship shall be limited to twenty-five the first year. 
Article V. Dues — The dues shall be one dollar per annum to 
charter members; two dollars to other members. A prospec- 
tive member becomes a regular member upon payment of dues. 
Article VI. Officers — The officers shall include a Presi- 
dent, a Vice-President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and a Libra- 
rian. These officers shall be nominated from the floor and 
elected by popular vote. They shall serve one year. 
Article VII. The Program Committee — This committee 
shall consist of three suitable members to be chosen by the 
club to arrange the program for the year. Each member of 
the club will be asked to give her services in reference work, etc. 
For further information concerning the club, address 
Mrs. Chandler, 7 Edison Avenue, Tufts College, Mass. The 
answers will be published on this page in the next issue follow- 
ing receipt of letters. 
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The passing of Bela Pratt has occasioned sorrowful regret 
among the lovers of modern sculpture all over America. Though 
living and working in Boston, Mr. Pratt has belonged to the 
whole country, and as a whole it mourns the quenching of his 
genius. F. Ogden Cornish, writing in the Transcript says, 
"Pratt, like his contemporaries, Cyrus Dallin and the Kitsons, 
really came into Boston as a missionary of the newer move- 
ment in sculpture that has completely outgrown the insipidities 
of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and that, in 
the person of Rodin, has attained heights of artistic achieve- 
ment unsurpassed since the days of Phidias". He was a pupil 
of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. One of his most beautifully 
modelled groups is the Light and Darkness, one of his World's 
Exposition works. 
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John S. Sargent recently returned from the South where 
he painted the portrait of John D. Rockefeller for the modest 
consideration of $50,000, said to have been contributed later 
by the artist to one of the war relief funds. 
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts sponsored an exhibi- 
tion of childrens' work the last of May, in which drawings and 
paintings by little people from 10 to 14 created considerable 
interest. Much work that was genuinely artistic was shown. 
These children have been taught, not so much with a desire 
to make artists of them in the future, but to develop their 
appreciation of the beautiful. 
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Note: — Mrs. Chandler is much alarmed that her term of office as presi- 
dent of the Art Lovers Club of Greater Boston extends from 1907 to the year 
0908, according to the June number of the Studio ! She feels that it is alto- 
gether too long. 
MAUD M. MASON ----- 
218 West 59th Street, New York City 
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HIGHER IDEALS 
THE study of design in the various keramic clubs cannot 
be too highly commended and encouraged as it means 
so very much in the development of our beautiful craft. 
The Atlan Club in Chicago constituted the enthusiastic 
group that commenced this work many years ago and then 
the New York Society of Ceramic Arts with Mr. Dow as their 
prophet, followed a similar course some fifteen years ago, 
since which time most of the other Ceramic Clubs have fallen 
in line. I am frequently delighted by letters from remote 
towns in regard to courses of study in design all showing a 
desire for help in this direction and for an understanding of 
the principles governing all creative work. "I wish to design 
my own pieces". — "I wish to be able to distinguish a good 
design from a poor one". — "Why is one type of work good and 
another bad", etc., etc., the expression of such desires 
may be heard from many directions and is indicative of higher 
ideals and a desire to do better work, and a recognition of the 
fact that a study of the principles of art and decoration is 
essential to good work. However, simple pattern making 
should not be the ultimate ambition of the student of design, 
but the beginning, and we must remember that it is the gen 
eral art training that affords a back-ground for really fine crea- 
tive work. 
Therefore let us not stop with the accomplishment of 
merely pleasing simple decorations, but let us go ahead and 
do more significant work in design, illustrative of some inter- 
