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LEAGUE MEDAL 
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF MINERAL PAINTERS 
Brooklyn, N. Y., April 28, 1901. 
The annual meeting of the National League of Mineral 
Painters will be held in the Women's Administration Build- 
ing, Exposition Grounds Buffalo, N. Y., May 31, 1901. The 
meeting will be called to order at 10 A. M. 
ORDER OF BUSINESS. 
Triennial Report of Officers. 
1 Reports of Committees. 
(a) Educational. 
(&) Exhibition. 
(c) Transportation. 
(d) Finance. 
(e) Printing and Press. 
Election of Officers for the next Triennial. 
III. While the Tellers and Auditors are counting the 
ballots, opportunity will be given for presenting 
messages from the enrolled clubs. 
Propositions for Membership. 
Propositions for the League to affiliate with other 
art associations. 
Miscellaneous Business. 
The officers, members and friends of all clubs are urgently 
invited to be present. 
Mrs. Worth Osgood, 
President. 
TEAGUE The winner of the League medal design 
NOTES WaS MisS Louise J- C- Hanford, of the Bridge- 
port League of Mineral Painters. The designs 
were examined by jury April 18th. Nine were sent in all. 
71? the Editors: 
While busy jotting down the items supposedly of interest 
to readers of League Notes, a subscriber of your magazine 
called, and among other things said that the League news for 
this month ought to be unusually good. I tried to explain 
that the "stuff" would be as usual, simple statements of work 
completed, and work in progress. But she would have it that 
a small pyrotechnic display at least would be expected. 
The explosion of this little bomb has been disastrous to 
the progress of the League Notes; for the things which a 
moment ago seemed worth while to tell about, now seem too 
inconsequential to publish. 
How gratifying it would be to announce a series of bril- 
liant achievements! To leave behind us a three years' record 
written in gold upon glorified clay. Fascinating thought. If 
we could stop the steady stream of League work for an hour 
or two we might be able to write up some interesting under- 
takings which, if not glittering, at least possess color, and we 
might show that although the plastic material on which these 
undertakings are written may not be glorified clay, it has the 
merit of being a true American product that has stood the 
test of fire. You realize that these years have been filled 
with serious determined labor, that in every undertaking 
we have had a definite purpose in view. 
Take for instance the ceramic display at the Pan-Ameri- 
can Exposition. The plan was about like this: To have a 
Keramic Section either in the Fine Arts Building or in a build- 
ing annexed to the Art Gallery. In this the Committee of 
Fine Arts would collect exhibits from every maker of art 
pottery and porcelain in America. Besides this, it was pro- 
posed to have all the prominent mineral painters and 
decorators, whose offerings were accepted by the Selection 
Committee, grouped under this roof, this feature to be in 
charge of the National League. This was the proposition in 
brief that was presented to the president of the Exposition 
Company, the Director General and the Committee of Fine 
Arts, by one of the committee whose interest in ceramics is 
purely a recreative one. 
I am told that this proposition was well received by these 
gentlemen and that considerable correspondence was had 
before the League knew of the wide scope of its proposed 
annex. The League spent its best efforts to bring about the 
realization of this project. 
All went swimmingly until the actual work of the Fine 
Arts Committee began. With one sweep the keramic feature 
of the Exposition, so far as its having any direct connection 
with the Department of Fine Arts, was thrown aside, on the 
ground that it had no business in the Art Section, and even if 
it could properly go there the necessary room was lacking, 
etc. That threw pottery and our work into the Department 
of Manufactures, together with the thousand and one other 
things that are there, and destroyed our courage to work for 
a good exhibition on the old lines. 
By intelligent persistence we have, we believe, collected 
a better exhibit of mineral painting than has been shown in 
any previous exhibition, but very far from being what we 
should have. Why did we do it? Because we believe that 
this National League of Mineral Painters exhibition is the 
entering wedge to the placing of mineral paintings on a higher 
artistic place at future expositions. When we can enter an 
exposition as a part of the Art Section the expense of exhib- 
iting will then come within the reach of all our artists. 
By doing our best at Buffalo we hope to show to those in 
charge of the next exhibition at St. Louis that our request 
for the concession of a Keramic Section at their exposition is 
worthy of acknowledgement. As the widow in scripture was 
heard for her much asking, so do we hope to be heard. Here 
is the gist of it all. We have no time to attempt a good 
showing in print. Every ounce of strength and fraction of 
time is required to get our present exhibition creditably 
installed. 
The daily letters from Miss Montfort are interesting. 
Major Wheeler in a letter this morning pays a fine compli- 
ment to her for the progress on our booth. 
Faithfully yours, 
Laura Howe Osgood. 
The exhibition programme is as follows: 
Women's Administration Building, Exposition Grounds 
Buffalo, Friday, May 31, at 10, annual meeting and triennial 
election of officers. 
Saturday, June 1, at 10 — The Poetry of Pottery, Mr. Wm. 
A. King. 
Saturday, June 1, at 11 — The American Artist Potter, 
Prof. C. F. Birins. 
