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KERAMIC STUDIO 
ANITA GRAY CHANDLER - - - p AGE Editor 
7 Edison Avenue. Tufts College, Mass. 
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. 
THE City Art Museum of St. Louis, R. A. Holland, Di- 
rector, is gradually acquiring an unusually good per- 
manent collection of paintings, textiles, tapestries, bronzes, 
ceramics, prints, and furniture. The annual report states 
that it ranks fourth among institutions of its kind in the 
United States. The museum has spent $27,550 for paintings, 
$4943 for prints, $21,263 for bronzes, ceramics, and marbles, 
and $29,701 for other art objects. The attendance has in- 
creased about 32,000 within the last year, indicating that 
people are aware of the benefits to be derived from the in- 
stitution. 
The Worcester Art Museum is exhibiting its recent 
acquisition of eleven Sargent water-colors made in Florida 
last winter. It will continue until October 1. The titles 
are suggestive of the subjects: "Bathers", "Muddy Alliga- 
tors," "The Palms," "Shaded Paths," "Waterlogged Boats," 
"The Pool," "The Basin," "Boats at Anchor," "The Ter- 
race," "The Interior Court," and "The Cloisters." The 
museum has also come into possession of some portraits by 
Thomas Sully, the favorite portrait-painter of Queen Victoria. 
He was born in 1783 and died in 1872. The Boston Museum 
of Fine Arts owns the most popular of all his works, "The 
Torn Hat" which represents a fresh-faced little boy wearing 
a much-the-worse-for-wear hat of yellow straw. The origi- 
nal study for his famous coronation portrait of Queen Victoria, 
the very same we had in our English Histories at High 
School, is now at the Metropolitan, bequeathed several years 
ago by the painter's grandson, Francis T. Sully-Darley. The 
Minneapolis Museum has four of his paintings. 
Mrs. W. B. Thayer has given the nucleus of a collection 
for an art museum to the University of Kansas in memory 
of her husband. The gift is permanent providing the Univer- 
sity secures a suitable gallery for the collection within three 
years. 
Allan G. Newman was awarded the $500 prize for a valor 
medal in the competition held by the National Arts Club. 
Henry Turner Bailey of Boston will begin his duties as 
dean of the Cleveland School of Art in September. 
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is the recipient of a 
most important gift from Charles L. Freer of Detroit. There 
are 178 objects^in the collection, all of great value to the stu- 
dent and art-lover, including a large group of fragments of 
Near Eastern pottery, paintings by Japanese artists with 
dates from the thirteenth to the early nineteenth century, 
Japanese pottery, a number of Syrian, Persian and Indian 
tiles, Chinese jewelry, and a great many Eastern wares which 
illustrate various types of glaze and decoration. 
"Daniel S. Fox of 141 Milk Street, this city, has started 
a nation wide movement to induce artists to save all the old 
paint tubes and other lead and tinfoil for the Red Cross. 
He also urges that sculptors should not throw away their 
lead wire." — The Boston Herald. There's safety in 
saving. 
Louis Raemaekers, the Dutch cartoonist who has gained 
lasting fame in this war, has come to America to work because 
he feels that he can do more good here with his pictures than 
anywhere else. In London he was feted as one of the heroes 
of the war. It is to be expected that his reception here will 
be no less cordial, since his work when exhibited last autumn 
in New York and Boston created a sensation. 
One of the daintiest Japanese types decorated with the cherry blossoms. 
(Courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.) 
It has been decided to establish an East Side Art Center 
in New York as a result of the successful exhibition of the 
People's Art Guild held this summer in the Forward building. 
St. George, Staten Island, N. Y. is to have an art museum, 
according to the latest plans, for the local Association of the 
Arts and Sciences. 
Dr. Christian Brinton, the art critic and writer, has been 
given the decoration of a Knight of the Royal Order of Vasa 
by the King of Sweden in recognition of his services in con- 
nection with the recent exhibition of Swedish art. It was 
partly through Dr. Brinton's efforts that the Zuloaga paint- 
ings were brought to America last Fall. 
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The annual exhibition of the Hingham Arts and Crafts 
Society took place this summer in the Episcopal church in 
that quaint and interesting little town. The Society which 
is about sixteen years old, makes an effort to keep alive the 
arts and crafts for which the place was well known a hundred 
years ago. As usual the basketry work was especially good. 
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