KERAMC STUDIO 
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the following members may be mentioned as being most favor- 
ably commented on : Miss McKay, Mrs. Beebe, Mr^. Bakeman, 
Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Swift, Mr. Callowhill, Miss Page, Miss Fair- 
banks and Mrs. Safford. 
TN THE Miss Leta Horlocker will close her studio 
< ,_ TT _^ T ^„ the first of July, when she sails for Europe with 
a party of artists to visit the art centers there. 
The artists of New York are enjoying the work of Mrs. 
Koehler, who is at present teaching in Mrs. Leonard's studio, 
28 East Twenty-third street. Mrs. Koehler is the first one to 
start pupils upon the basis of design and color. She really 
prefers several weeks of study before beginning the actual 
work. Decorators will never be recognized by the art world 
until this method is more fully understood and carried out. 
We have heard of several teachers who will change their 
method of teaching next year, and give instructions by the 
month instead of by the lesson. 
Mrs. Anna B. Leonard invited the artists of New York to 
a private view in her studio of the conventionally decorated 
porcelains of Mrs. Florence Koehler and her pupils — a few 
members of the Atlan Club of Chicago. Mrs. Koehler teaches 
and criticises from the very highest standard of decorative 
art, and those who follow her faithfully, generally have to 
give up the very things that have been generally admired by 
devoted friends. But in many cases it would be wise to say, 
" Heaven save us from our friends." While Mrs. Koehler 
undoubtedly has drawn her inspiration from the orientals, yet 
her work of to-day is much more free and individual than it 
was ten years ago, and this shows also in her pupils' work. 
This same work will be exhibited at the Teachers' College, 
also in connection with Columbia University, as a department 
of keramics has just been started, and there is much interest 
shown in this advanced work by Mrs. Koehler. The Keramic 
STUDIO cannot say too much in praise of this artist, who so 
bravely stands by her convictions and is doing what no other 
decorator has done — teaching how to study keramics. She 
will have classes in New York at Mrs. Leonard's studio, two 
weeks longer. She is planning to take the class to the Metro- 
politan Museum for sketching of some of the old porcelains 
and for general talks upon the colors, glazes and adaptability 
of design. 
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Miss Wynne's china shop, which has been 
for years the mecca for china painters in New 
York, is at last about to be removed to 1 1 
E. 20th street. We wish her all possible luck in her new 
quarters. 
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PANSY PLATE— F. W. MALEY 
