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KERAMIC STUDIO 
ANITA GRAY CHANDLER 
7 Edison Avenue. Tufts College, Mass. 
Page Editor 
AT THE SIGN 
OF THE 
BRUSH AND PALETTE 
This is Ye Old Art Inn 
where the worker of Arts and 
Crafts may rest a bit and par- 
take of refreshment. 
THE Boston Society of Arts and Crafts has a plan whereby 
distinctive costumes are to be worn by members at the 
business and social meetings of the organization, thus bring- 
ing more color into the gatherings and helping members to 
become easily acquainted. The crafts have been divided 
into twelve groups based partly upon the ancient Florentine 
Guilds, and a color has been chosen for each group. The 
craftsmen will have smocks of their special groups, with the 
mark of their craft upon the left arm. Members from each 
group have been asked to make designs for this insignia, made 
so that it may be stenciled, embroidered, or applied to the 
smock. Masters will wear dark blue gowns in addition to 
the smocks. 
A list of the craft groups with distinctive colors for the 
smocks: Workers in Metal, Gray; Workers in Stone and 
Wood, Brown; Workers in Glass, Red; Workers in Leather, 
Tan; Workers in Textiles, Green; Makers of Baskets, Light 
Green; Makers of Books, Terra Cotta; Potters, White; De- 
signers, Yellow; Architects, Blue; Photographers, Claret; 
Associates, Purple. 
The accompanying illustration shows the white smock 
of the Potters, under which group the China Decorators are 
classed. All smocks are made after this pattern, adapted 
from a French peasant smock. 
* * * 
People have been crowding to the newly decorated gal- 
lery of the Boston Public Library for a month to see Sargent's 
panels and lunettes of the Judaism and Christianity sequence 
which were unveiled December 21, 1916. These murals bring 
almost to a conclusion one of the greatest art undertakings of 
modern times. In 1890 Mr. Sargent was commissioned by 
the Library architects to paint a pair of lunettes for the ends 
of the long narrow vault over the hall which gives entrance 
to special libraries, music rooms, and fine arts room. In 1895 
the so-called Judaic Development was unveiled. Most 
people have become familiar with this through the oft-re- 
printed Frieze of the Prophets. ' In 1903 the Dogma of the 
Redemption was installed at the opposite end of the hall. 
The new paintings bring the older into a more comprehensive 
unity. There still remain a few panels to be decorated before 
the vast work is completed. Mr. Sargent has been working 
upon the newly finished paintings for ten years in his English 
studio. Last summer he came to Boston and personally 
superintended their adjustment. It was not uncommon to 
see him upon the scaffolding in overalls directing the work. 
The gallery has been called the little Sistine Chapel of Boston. 
Next month there will be an illustration of some of these paint- 
ings which have already taken their place in the art world 
beside the murals of Raphael and Michael Angelo. 
* * * 
The prize winners at the biennial exhibition at the Cor- 
coran Gallery of Art, Washington, were as follows: first William 
A. Clark prize of $2,000 with gold modal, Arthur B. Davies; 
second Clark prize with silver medal, Ernest Lawson for his 
"Boat House, Winter, Harlem River;" third Clark prize 
and bronze medal, Hugh H. Breckenbridge with "Nude and 
Still Life;" fourth prize, $500 and honorable mention, George 
B. Luks. Twenty pictures were sold the first day, eight being 
purchased by the gallery. 
* * * 
The American Water Color Society exhibits at the National 
Arts Club, New York, from January 31, to February 24. 
POTTERS' AND CHINA DECORATORS' FROCK 
Adopted by Boston Society of Arts and Crafts. Photo by Melville Munro. 
The ninety-second exhibition of the National Academy of 
Design,wift be held March 16, April 22, in the Fine Arts Bull- 
ing, New York. Exhibits received February 28, March 1. 
The catalogue of the American Art Association announces 
the following free view beginning February 9, at the American 
Art Galleries, Madison Square South, New York; "A very 
valuable collection of Antique Chinese Porcelains, Ancient 
Pottery, Carved Jade, Stone Sculpture, Antiquities, Paint- 
ings, and other rare objects to be sold by directors of the 
Chinese Ching Van Lee, of Shanghai. Sales on the after- 
noons of 15, 16 and 17." 
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