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KERAMIC STUDIO 
ANITA GRAY CHANDLER 
7 Edison Avenue. Tufts College, Mass. 
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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 work of summer art school students from many parts 
of the country was exhibited from Oct. 1 to Oct. 12, 
in the galleries of the Art Alliance of America, New York 
City. There was an interesting display of arts and crafts 
from the Berkshire Summer School of Art, under direction of 
the Pratt Institute instructors. The Art Students' League of 
New York was well represented. Among the other schools to ex- 
hibit were the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis 
Institute of Art, the Annspaugh Art School of Dallas, Texas, 
and the summer art school of the Pennsylvania Academy of 
Fine Arts which is held at Chester Springs, Penn. The value of 
such exhibitions as these can easily be seen as they tend not only 
to spur the students on to redoubled efforts but they give the 
public, even if it is merely the art-loving public, the opportun- 
ity to see what is being done in this country in the way of 
art. A students' exhibition is held every year in Boston that 
attracts many besides fond parents, aunts, and cousins. The 
Boston Museum School of Fine Arts holds its students' ex- 
hibition in one of the museum galleries where one may see 
work of the most interesting order. Not infrequently a stu- 
dent himself will explain just what a certain piece of modelling 
or a particular picture is intended to convey. Most of the 
work at student exhibitions is refreshing, naive, and original. 
Self-expression seems to be the watchword. 
The project for decorating the Missouri State Capitol 
has been put into the hands of a most competent committee 
composed of the following well known people : Professor Pickard 
of the State University, Mr. Bixby of the City Art Museum 
of St. Louis, Mr. Downing, treasurer of the Kansas City Art 
League, Mr. Kocian, a St. Louis art dealer, and Mrs. Painter, 
former state regent of the Daughters of the American Revo- 
lution. Mr. Egerton Swarthout is the architect. 
That America is rich in mural decoration will be made 
evident to one who reads the recently published pamphlet 
of the Mural Painters, a national organization founded a 
little over twenty years ago. Though mural decoration in 
this country is of comparatively recent date the work accom- 
plished is in the main of the highest order, and the list of 
artists engaged in it is surprisingly long. The names of John 
W. Alexander, John La Farge, Kenyon Cox, Edwin H. Blash- 
field and Ernest Peixotto stand out among many others less 
familiar. The society known as the Mural Painters was 
organized for the purpose of developing the arts which are 
used in the embellishment of architecture, whether carried 
out in pigment, stained-glass, tapestry, mosaic, or other suita- 
ble mediums; also to regulate decorative contests, by-laws for 
professional practice, and "for the establishment of an educa- 
tional propaganda through^the agency of lectures, existing 
schools, and in whatever ways opportunity may suggest." 
For those art clubs expecting to study murals this winter this 
pamphlet will be found quite valuable. 
Late in September last, the beautiful old Havana Cathe- 
dral in which rest the bones of no less a personage than Colum- 
bus, was threatened with sale and subsequent demolition. 
Instantly a storm of protest arose from historians, artists, and 
public-spirited people who considered it nothing less than 
desecration to destroy an edifice so ancient, beautiful and 
historically significant. As a result the members of the 
National Historical Society of Cuba interested themselves in 
saving the cathedral for posterity, and it is thought by those 
who understand the situation that it will be taken over by 
the Cuban Government as a national monument. The chief 
art treasure is a small Murillo, depicting the Pope and the 
Cardinals celebrating mass prior to the departure of Columbus 
on his portentous voyage. The. interior decorations are in 
themselves of the choicest order, being well worth the Cuban 
government's saving, even if the bones of Columbus and the 
little Murillo did not warrant it. The building is 213 years 
old; it was completed in 1704 by the Jesuits; in 1705 the 
Columbus relics were brought to its crypt from Santo Domingo. 
Designs adapted for an old Moorish platter. Applied to modern Japanese 
yellow pottery 
The Boston Publie Library is showing a group of French 
war posters this autumn in its Fine Arts room in connection 
with a collection of photographs illustrating French art. 
Sculpture, painting and architecture are included among them. 
Details of Rheims Cathedral, both exterior and interior, seem 
to interest the visitors more than any others. One hears 
many pronunciations of the well known word. Some make it 
rhyme with "dreams," others with "dimes," still others with 
"France," either broad or flat "a." The war posters, as might 
be expected, are generally somber in tone. Very little of the 
proverbial "French gaiety" appears. In perhaps two, genuine 
humor is expressed. The most impressive in the collection 
represents Cardinal Mercier defending his people against the 
invaders. The red in his robes stands out as sharply as blood 
against the doleful greys and blacks of his people who are 
massed in at the left of the drawing in every attitude of des- 
pair. The Cardinal's figure is valiant, protecting and protest- 
ing. Done in other medium and less sketchily this might 
well be a lasting picture. It has the elements of greatness. 
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