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KERAMIC STUDIO 
ANITA GRAY CHANDLER - - - Page Editor 
7 Edison Avenue. Tufts College, Mass. 
AT THE SIGN 
OF THE 
BRUSH AND PALETTE 
This is Ye Old Art Inn 
where the worker at Arts and 
Crafts may rest a bit and par- 
take of refreshment. 
TF you do not believe there is plenty of opportunity for the 
-■■ woman who is "handy with her brush" read this list of 
things which are much in demand to-day provided they are 
well done. Not to mention a single one of the numerous 
hand-painted china articles that constantly are being made. 
We shall go down in history as a Painted Age. 
Bed-room furniture Flower pots Hats 
Mirror frames Bird-cages Evening gowns 
Candle-sticks Trinket-boxes Slippers 
Candle and lamp- Telephone covers Parasols 
shades Book racks Fans 
Tea-trays Door holders 
The sixth annual exhibition of the Corcoran Art Gallery 
will be held December 17, January 21. The prizes are especi- 
ally tempting, to wit: First, $2,000, with Corcoran gold medal; 
second, $1,500 with Corcoran silver medal; third, $1,000 with 
Corcoran bronze medal; fourth, $500 with honorable mention. 
Is it any wonder that artists form the habit of exhibiting at 
the Corcoran Gallery? In the last five years more than 200,000 
visitors have attended the shows. If you are in Washington 
between these dates stop and see the exhibit. 
The American Artist's Committee of One Hundred, organ- 
ized three weeks after the Great War began, for the purpose 
of raising funds to aid families of French soldier artists, has 
recently issued an appeal for additional contributions. A sum 
nearly approaching $22,000 has already been collected. The 
committee's treasurer, W. B. Faxon, can be reached at 58 West 
Fifty-seventh Street, New York City. 
The University of Pennsylvania a while ago received a 
consignment of priceless Chinese antiquities excavated by 
Dr. Carl Bishop during an archaeological prospecting tour for 
the University, in China and Japan. Great quantities of the 
treasures were found in eaves once inhabited by the savage 
ancestors of the Chinese. Pottery bowls, basins, vases, jars, 
coffins, and even pottery and stone effigies which were buried 
with the master of the house, are some of the objects unearthed. 
The value of this find in relation to the history of ceramics 
is hard to estimate. 
A fitting memorial to those who saved "women and chil- 
dren first" when the Titanic went down April 15, 1913, is soon 
to be erected in Washington. The statue itself, representing 
an heroic masculine figure with arms out-stretched in the form 
of the Crucifixion, was designed by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney 
and executed by a sculptor of Quincy, Mass., Mr. John Horri- 
gan. It is carved from one block of reddish granite. Mrs. 
Whitney first visited eight firms in Paris in an effort to have it 
cut in one piece but found none willing to attempt it. 
A glance through the advertisements of any English art 
magazine will "bring the war home to you" in a new way. 
For instance here is one insert: "Studios to Let. — Large 
and small at reduced rents during the war. Apply (up to 4) 
to Caretaker, Stanley Studios, Park Walk, Chelsea, S. W." 
One number of The Studio, published at 44 Leicester Square, 
London, contains a photograph sent from the War Camp 
at Giessen, showing a number of prisoners at work before their 
easels. A letter from one of them explains, "We are about 
twenty men, of many various artistic talents and qualities, 
from theatrical scenic painters to 'Beaux Arts' painters." 
He who paints must paint. 
An Autumn exhibition of Louis Raemaekers' cartoons 
at Copley Hall, Boston, created so much interest that it was 
prolonged week by week to admit the large numbers that wished 
to see it. The pictures were sold for the benefit of the Allied 
Relief Fund. Raemaekers is a native of Holland, who since 
the beginning of the war has used his facile pencil in behalf of 
the Allies. It is asserted that the Kaiser has set a price on his 
head should he enter German territory at any time. Mr. 
Raemaekers' rise to fame has been startling, to say the least. 
Francis Stopford, Editor of Land and Water, says of him, 
" Louis Raemaekers will stand out for all time as one of the 
supreme figures which the Great War has called into being." 
Those who have seen his work, whether in magazines, news- 
papers, or in exhibition will understand his claim to greatness. 
His drawings are utterly sincere, virile, penetrating, keen, 
with a lasting quality in every line. 
Not long ago certain electrical companies of the United 
States offered $2,200 in prizes for the best poster designs por- 
traying Electricity. The contest was open to both men and 
women designers but it was supposed that the former would 
far offset the latter in numbers. However, of the 781 posters 
submitted, 352 were by women — nearly half the entire number. 
The figures of the awards are as follows: One-fourth the prizes 
won by women; one-half the designs deserving special diplomas 
executed by women; 64 of the 125 posters finally chosen for 
display in art clubs, public libraries, etc., the work of women. 
Surely here is encouragement for the feminine designer. 
John Singer Sargent who is at present in Boston to super- 
intend the installation of his great mural, The Sermon on the 
Mount, at the Public Library, is reported to have purchased 
a charming old home in Oxfordshire, England, for his use when 
he shall return to that country. This house, built in the early 
part of the seventeenth century for Sir Lawrence Tanfield, 
has been a favorite with sketch-artists for a long while. 
In 1920 the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims at 
Plymouth will be celebrated in New England, and observed 
with interest throughout the United States as an event of 
singular historic import. Plans are even now being proposed 
for a fitting form of celebration, and naturally differences of 
opinion are many. New Englanders in general seem to oppose 
a commercial demonstration such as a World's Fair or Exposi- 
tion. Others object to a stupendous pageant as being out of 
keeping with the stern Puritanical dislike of "shows". Ralph 
Adams Cram, the eminent architect and author, speaking before 
the American Society of Colonial Families in Boston last Octo- 
ber, launched his idea of an appropriate celebration. It is 
nothing less than the erection of a permanent Dream City 
which would be "half Venice, half Bruges" — the embodiment 
of the perfect expression of art. "I would like," said Mr. 
Cram, "to make that celebration a revelation of the eternal 
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