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KERAMIC STUDIO 
MRS. KATHRYN E. CHERRY 
MRS. CHERRY'S charming personality is as well known 
as her charming work, in spite of the fact that she will 
do almost nothing to advertise herself and her work. Being 
a personal friend of the editor, the latter speaks with feeling 
on this subject, having endeavored in vain to get any details 
of her career for the benefit of Keramic Studio readers. It is 
Mrs. Cherry's one serious fault that she is so wrapped up in 
her work that it is almost impossible to get her to "tend to 
business." 
It was at about the time of the birth of Keramic Studio 
that Mrs. Cherry came to Mrs. Robineau's studio in New York 
for a few lessons in what was then the only conventional work, 
raised paste-enamel and lustre. Since then she has so far out- 
stripped her teacher, both in design and execution of overglaze 
decoration, that if the latter returned to- this field, which she 
deserted fifteen years ago, she would need to take lessons of her 
pupil. All that the editor can resurrect out of memories of the 
past in regard to Mrs. Cherry's honors is the gold medal re- 
ceived at the St. Louis Exposition. She is a Master Craftsman 
of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, and in the last exhibit 
of the Art Institute of Chicago, received honorable mention 
from the jury on the Mrs. J. Ogden Armour Prize. 
She is an indefatigable worker. I have known her to get 
up at daybreak and go out into the fields and paint a couple of 
canvases before breakfast, teach her classes from eight till five 
p. m., paint another canvas before dinner, and another after 
dinner, and then work till after ten p. m. straightening out the 
day's class work. She has made a considerable reputation for 
her work in oils among her fellow artists of the St. Louis Artists' 
GROUP BY KATHRYN E. CHERRY 
