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KERAMIC STUDIO 
LEAGUE NOTES 
Report of Chairman on Transportation. 
The work of the Transportation Committee last year 
was somewhat difficult as the Exhibit had to start from 
the center of the circle as it were, and to work in two 
directions. To please all as to time of entertaining was 
many times puzzling and often impossible. As it was it 
had to go over the same route twice in many cases, there- 
by incurring extra expense to the League. We are hop- 
ing to avoid all of that this year. 
On May 3d, this year's exhibit started at Chicago and 
was entertained by the Chicago Ceramic Art Association at 
the Art Institute until May 27th when it was put on ex- 
hibition at Burley & Co.'s. china store, to remain for two 
weeks. 
It being so late in the summer before it could leave 
Chicago it was thought advisable to hold the work in stor- 
age in Chicago until fall, any members wishing to add to 
the exhibit can do so by sending in before the second 
week in August. 
Send the work to Lulu C. Bergen, 7404 Harvard Ave., 
Chicago. 
The route for the exhibit is as follows: 
Chicago, May 3d to the 27th. 
Detroit, Mich., Sept. 1st to 8th. 
Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 12th to the 15th. 
Augusta, Me. Sept. 19th to the 2 2d. 
Portland, Me. Sept. 24th to the 28th. 
Boston, Mass. Oct. 1st to the 8th. 
Providence, R. I. Oct. 10th to the 13th. 
Newark, N. J. i AT T ^ , ,, , ... ,, 
A-. - N. T. Oct. 20th to the 27th. 
Jersey City, I J 
New York City, Oct. 30th to Nov. 6th. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. Nov. 8th to the 15th. 
Kansas City, Mo. Nov. 21st to the 27th. 
Denver, Col. Dec. 10th to the 17th. 
San Francisco, Cal. Jan. 2d to the 9th. 
Portland, Ore. Jan. 18th to the 25th. 
Respectfully submitted, 
MRS. LULU C. BERGEN, 
Chairman on Transportation. 
CLUB NOTES 
A meeting of the California Keramic Club was held 
at the studio of the president, Miss Taylor, May 26th. 
This being the first meeting since the disaster, much interest 
was shown by the members. 
The general feeling among the ladies was to cling to- 
gether and help each other. Many of the members lost 
all their possessions both at home and in the studios. The 
more fortunate ones kindly offered their studio materials, 
kilns and so on, to any of the members who suffered loss 
in the recent calamity./ 
A vote of thanks was given the Keramic Studio 
Publishing Co. for their generous assistance, which was 
very much appreciated. 
STUDIO NOTES 
'•■"Miss Jeanne ,M. Stewart will spend the months of 
August and September in Europe, studying, and her classes 
will be reopened October 15th. 
Miss Mabel C. Dibble of Chicago will spend July and 
August in Northern Michigan. 
CHICAGO EXHIBITION 
The fourteenth annual exhibition of the Chicago 
Ceramic Art Association and the annual exhibition of the 
National League of Mineral Painters have filled a series of 
cases in the South galleries of the Art Institute. 
The articles have passed the inspection of a critical 
jury demanding from six to ten points in excellence of 
shape, design and its application to shape and to the pur- 
pose of the vessel, in color and harmony in combination. 
Owing to the rigid restrictions placed by the Art 
Institute upon ceramic entries the jury went about its 
task last year with the determination to rise above all 
difficulties and produce a showing that would be distinct- 
ly creditable, with the result of opening a small but rather 
extraordinary exhibition. 
Anyone who looks for the old-style flower painting 
or imitations of Dresden or Sevres will be disappointed. 
The rules of the society require conventionalized forms or 
abstract ideas, and naturalistic painting is frowned upon. 
The newest efforts are seen in the low tones and the subtle 
contrasts of tones in the same color. The beauty de- 
veloped in cool greens and blues and pale browns is fascinat- 
ing and satisfying to the most exacting colorist. 
Mrs. Mary J. Coulter, retiring president of the organiza- 
tion, has an interesting group, including a plate with apple 
motif, bowl with tree motif, a delicately treated bowl in 
pale green Sedji, and incense burners, a bowl and jar in 
quaint Satsuma. 
A vase of oriental reflections with designs in enamel 
by Mrs. J. C. Long has no rival. Mary A. Farrington's 
plate in green and blue is unusual. Helen H. Goodman 
has a group beautifully executed from designs by Marshal 
Fry, and a green vase in which both design and execution 
are her own is very good. 
An elaborate plate of violet motif, and a series of 
artistic combinations in mushroom motifs, peacock and 
blue — in all, seven plates — by Evelyn Brackett Beachey, 
show versatile talent. lone Wheeler exhibits a delight- 
ful placque in the peacock thought. The development 
of a motif finds as much favor among the china painter 
as among writers of music, and the themes are unerringly 
worked out to logical conclusions. 
The Chicago Ceramic Art Association registers sixty 
members. 
The National League of Mineral Painters has repre- 
sentatives from the Denver Mineral Art Club, Newark 
Keramic Society, New York Society of Keramic Arts, 
Chicago Ceramic Art Association and individual members. 
Miss Ophelia Foley from Owensboro, Ky., and Mrs. Charles 
C. Williams of Glen Falls, N. Y. Included in this special 
section is a New York loan exhibit. 
