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RERAMIC STUDIO 
decorative repeated in a border and the spiky clusters of seeds 
about the stems make an interesting motif. 
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It is an especially useful study as it takes one out of the 
beaten tracks. 
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF MINERAL PAINTERS 
Officers of the League. 
Miss Ida A. Johnson, President, 198 St. James Place, Brooklyn 
Miss Sophia Gaskell Keenan, Vice-President, 5550 Hays St., Pittsburg 
Mrs. Evelyn S. DeWitt, Rec. Secretary, 47 W. 16th St., New York 
Miss Myra Boyd, Cor. Secretary, Pittsburg 
Miss M. Helen E. Montfort, Treasurer, 307 Lenox Ave., New York 
Mrs. Kate C. Gore, Sec. to the Pres., 172 S. Oxford St., Brooklyn 
board members. 
Miss Mary Chase Perry, Detroit. Mrs. C. L. Swift, Boston. 
Mrs. C. C. Church, San Francisco. Mrs. Lois E. Andresen, New York. 
Mrs. L. W. Holcomb, New York. Miss Ida A. Johnson, Brooklyn. 
February 5th, 1 903. 
A MEETING of the Advisory Board was held on January 
24, at the Studio of Mrs. L. Vance Phillips. A most in- 
teresting letter from the Kansas City Club was read, express- 
ing a desire to join the League. The club is a large and en- 
thusiastic one, and will be a welcome addition to our forces. 
A letter from Mrs. Goodwin, President of the Springfield, 
Mass., Keramic Club, gives some details of their interesting 
December exhibition, which seems to have been planned on 
the advancing lines. The League bowl is to be decorated for 
the April meeting, and we shall await with interest a report of 
the result. They are also hoping to take a course in design, 
a plan for improvement which is appealing more and more to 
our workers. 
The Brooklyn Society of Mineral Painters has two courses 
of study for its members this winter: one is design, and an- 
other is water color. 
It is certain that in the near future the work of the whole 
League will be lifted to a higher plane by these honest efforts 
to add dignity and meaning to our work. 
We had hoped to have something definite to say concern- 
ing St. Louis, but the committee reports that it is impossible, 
as yet, to get at any facts or figures. As much interest has 
been shown in the character of the exhibit to be sent to St. 
Louis, Mr. Marshal Fry was asked to prepare a statement, 
explaining the attitude and wishes of the League, which state- 
ment has been sent to the club presidents. 
Notwithstanding some of the discouraging features of the 
travelling exhibition, especially in its failure to appear on 
time in some places, the interest in, and appreciation of the 
value of such an exhibition, is not diminished ; it is rather 
enhanced, and the applications are already coming in for the 
next. 
On the whole, the League as a committee, for the general 
welfare of all, wishes to report progress. 
Ida A. Johnson, President. 
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36 West 24th St., New York, Jan., 31st, 1903. 
My Dear Madam: — 
At a recent meeting of the National League the subject 
of exhibiting at the St. Louis Exposition was discussed. It 
was voted that letters be sent to the presidents of the differ- 
ent clubs to lay before them the proposed plan, and I was 
asked to write you. 
You are probably familiar with the plan of study for the 
year, full information concerning it having appeared in the 
KERAMIC STUDIO for September, 1902, and February, 1903. 
It consists of a series of six problems, beginning with the first 
subject we ought to consider in ceramics — form — and ending 
with the completed overglaze decoration. The results of the 
study will be sent to New York, where they will be publicly 
shown about the last of April, and probably will be exhibited 
in a number of cities afterward. 
Next year we shall have a similar course of study and it 
is the idea of the League to select the best examples of both 
years work to make up an educational exhibit for St. Louis. 
The first thing to do is to stimulate an interest among 
the League members in the plan of study for the present 
year. To be all-round ceramists we must know something 
about form, and thus the first two problems are exercises in- 
tended to create an interest in the study of fine form. Then 
comes an exercise in pure design — a decoration for tile — and 
finally overglaze decoration on three specified forms — vase, 
bowl and plate. It is a plan which has been carefully and in- 
telligently thought out by our Chairman of Education. Each 
problem is a step which leads to the next. 
It is a great advantage to thus limit the choice of forms, 
for the exercise has an educational value for us when we are 
all working out the same problems. We get so much more 
good out of comparing our efforts with those of others when 
the conditions are related, either in form or subject. Then, 
too, our exhibits are made more uniform and interesting — it 
is evident to all that we are working with a definite purpose. 
It simplifies matters greatly for the judges as well. 
I know that you will do all in your power to stimulate 
enthusiasm over the plan among the members of your society, 
and will impress upon them the fact that all good work done 
for this coming exhibition will be eligible for St. Louis next 
year. 
I know our president, Miss Johnson, would be glad to 
hear from you and have the benefit of any thoughts or ideas 
which may occur to you in connection with League plans. 
Believe me, sincerely yours, 
Marshal Fry. 
CTUDIO An interesting exhibition of Miss Jeanne 
M. Stewart's recent work in California, of 
NOTES fruits and flowers in water color, is now being 
held at the art galleries of Thayer & Chandler, Chicago. It 
is attracting much attention. 
We have received the new edition of Miss Osgood's 
treatise on china decoration, " How to apply." The book has 
a steadily increasing sale. 
