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KERAMIC STUDIO 
ANITA GRAY CHANDLER 
7 Edison Avenue. Tufts College, Mass. 
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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. 
r I ^HE illustration this month is Sargent's Madonna of Sor- 
A rows, one of the noblest of his new paintings at the 
Boston Public library. As one ascends the stairs which lead 
to the long narrow hall which his murals adorn, this queenly 
figure at once majestic and sorrowful, commands the attention. 
She stands behind a screen of lighted candles, robed in rich 
fabric and upheld by the crescent moon. Into her heart are 
thrust the seven swords of the Seven Sorrows. In spite of 
the sumptuousness of the gold candle-sticks, which are done 
in half -relief, and the splendor of the robe and crown the whole 
effect is one of sadness. All tones are muted as it were. No 
reproduction can be expected to give the beautiful details of 
the original. 
vian and Russian Art; March 23, American Painters; April 
20, American Sculptors; May 4, Draughtsmen and Etchers. 
The lecturer is Mr. Robert B. Harshe, assistant director of 
the Department of Fine Arts. 
"If the useful arts suffered at the expense of fine arts 
during the nineteenth century, the pendulum of the twentieth 
is swinging in the opposite direction," says Hazel H. Adler 
in the January International Studio, in an article on The 
Decorative Arts in America. "Here in America," she con- 
tinues, "hundreds of men and women are being recruited from 
the ranks of painters and sculptors to the ranks of those who 
are trying to bring into the everyday life of the people that 
beauty which has hitherto been reserved for the art gallery 
and Museum. . . . Outwardly the American movement 
is marked by a free, delightful and spontaneous use of color. 
Inwardly it shows the tendency to apply intelligently modern 
artistic principles, creating objects expressive of modern 
taste and character, and in keeping with modern ideas of 
beauty. It shows tendencies toward exploration and dis- 
covery, toward a generous use of the imagination, and toward 
a technical skill and perfection which is' bidding fair to rival 
that of some of the best pieces of the past." Special mention 
is made of the honors paid Mrs. Adelaide Alsop-Robineau and 
Dorothea Warren O'Hara. 
A fascinating new book just published is Arts and Crafts, 
a review of the work executed by students in the leading art 
schools of Great Britain and Ireland. Edited by Charles 
Holme. In his preface he states that "In view of the interest 
which is now being shown in decorative and applied art, and 
its bearing upon the struggle for supremacy which must inevi- 
tably follow the end of the war, it is of the utmost importance 
that our workers should be adequately trained and equipped." 
The work of fifteen London art schools and sixteen provincial 
schools is given. The illustrations show very charming exam- 
ples of painted underglaze porcelain (with undeniable Chinese 
and Persian influence), embroideries, laces, designs for cretonne, 
silk, and tapestry hangings, rugs, leather and embroidered 
book-covers, book-plates, stained glass, carved and painted 
wood panels, dress designs, inlaid furniture, jewelry, silverware, 
tiles, pottery, repousse copper work, table linen, and designs 
for rooms. We are glad to see what our English cousins are 
doing and how they are doing it. 
The 112th annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy 
of Fine Arts was opened Feb. 4, continuing seven weeks. 
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The 18th annual exhibition of the American Society of 
Miniature Painters will be held under the auspices of the Na- 
tional Academy of Design at the American Fine Arts Galleries, 
215 West Fifty-seventh street, New York, from March 17 to 
April 22. The miniatures exhibited [have never !before been 
publicly shown. 
The Toledo Art Museum recently paid $30,000 for a col- 
lection of dolls dressed by Doucet, the French designer. The 
dolls, seventy-five in number, were modeled by French artists 
from portraits of the characters represented, depicting French 
history from the opening of the twelfth century to the present 
time. The collection was purchased at the Allied Bazaar 
held in Boston last December. 
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The following lectures will be given at the Carnegie In- 
stitute on Friday evenings at 8.15 p. m.: March 9, Scandina- 
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