KERAMIC STUDIO 
141 
ATLAN PRIZE, 1917, CHICAGO ART INSTITUTE 
SATSUMA BOWL 
Mrs. Richard Lavell, Minneapolis, Minn. 
with outside jury. This brought out some interesting and 
beautiful plates in varied styles of design. The first prize 
was awarded to Mrs. Nell Grey. Mrs. Lavell, winner of the 
1917 Atlan prize in Chicago, second prize, Miss Frances E. 
Newman receiving honorable mention. 
The exhibit this year showed a fine average. There were 
fewer large exhibition pieces than usual but it was a good show- 
ing of sincere work. The absence of ambitious pieces was not 
due to lack of creative ability or waning interest but to stress 
of circumstances in which expediency held invention in check. 
It takes the eye of faith to pierce the mist of the present and 
discern the better things to come, when imagination will again 
hold sway and artists dream dreams and bring them into 
manifestation. In the meantime rents must be paid and 
many service decorators are supplementing their regular work 
with various things, thereby broadening their scope and 
adding to their income. 
It will not hurt us to have a few lean years. We appre- 
ciate things by contrast. 
Among the attractive things which have been made to 
add to the income of one artist is a charming little Christmas 
eve window candle stick, made entirely of the Holly leaves 
and berries. It was modeled and then cast in iron and painted 
in the natural holly colors and held a red candle It was de- 
signed to be sold from the studios and commission shops, but 
was so attractive to the larger dealers that arrangements were 
made for exclusive sale in each of the Twin Cities. 
Many added hand made Christmas cards to their stock 
and in one studio space was sublet to an artist in embroidery, 
who is showing some truly artistic things in linens, crepes, etc. 
The next social meeting of the club will be in St. Paul 
when a trip to the State Capitol (under the guidance of Mr. 
Lauros M. Phoenix, a mural decorator) will be preceded by 
luncheon. 
One of the most hopeful signs in the local art world is the 
evident desire on the part of the different clubs to fraternize. 
This is being fostered and made possible by the management 
of the Art Institute in establishing the annual local exhibit 
which includes every department of art and in having each 
club represented on the committee of arrangements and on 
the jury of acceptance. 
The exhibit opened this year with a very informal recep- 
tion to the public by the Institute and Clubs represented. 
Russian tea was dispensed from the alcoves in the corrider 
and such a democratic spirit was engendered that the social 
feature will be made a monthly event during the year when 
each club in turn will act as host and hostess. 
Such a program cannot but result in breaking through 
in a measure the formal atmosphere which usually surrounds 
an Art Institute and in creating a more fraternal feeling among 
artists in different lines. 
BELLEEK VASE 
Mrs. F. H. Hanneman 
ALL dark bands and scrolls in Dark Blue Enamel. The 
flower is in light and dark pink enamel, the darker 
parts of the petals being the darker pink, also the bud. The 
leaves are in two shades of green enamel, and the stems and 
scrolls in flower motif in the darker shade of green. 
