The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-05
KERAMIC ARTISTS MEET
Jersey City Club Finds a Per-
manent Home-High Stand
ard of Work.

The Jersey City keranlc TT CLUB met III
the upper Hasbrouck studios yesterday
afternoon for their monthly competition.
A table draped in white was placed on one
side of the room and held the plates for the
competition. There wsro only about eight
plates presented for competition, although
about thirty members were present.
Mrs. Samuel r. Forman was elected 10
membership and Miss Case. one of the club,
was excused from the competitions because
she is residing in Bridgeton,s where she mas
accepted a position as art teacher in a school,.
Mrs. Holcomb, a newly elected member, was
present for the first time yesterday.
Mrs. Fanny Rowel Priestman opened the
discussion of a clubroom. The club has Tor
some time entertained the plan OF having a
permanent clubroom, where the club emma
might be kept on exhibition and to which
visitors might be taken. Mrs. Freshman
told the club that Mr.. c. G. Stimets and MI.
H. C. Wait had offered the upper studios IN
which the meeting was held for the perma-
nent use of the club. The rooms are light
and airy. The club was unanimous in ac-
cepting the courtesy of Messrs. Stimets and
Wait.
It was decided that the club should hold
an exhibition December II, 10 and IA in their
rooms. The Committee of Arrangements
are Mr.. Freshman, chairman; Miss Louise
Darling, Mrs. Louis R. Dressler, Miss Bertha
Daggett and Mrs. Hoffman,.
Miss Bertha Daggett, who had been sent to
Bridgeport, Conn.,, by the club to attend a
meeting of the Bridgeport League of Min
eral Painters, gave a poetic description OF the
pleasures of the visit. She said the league
had forty-one members and they painted
both china and in oil.
ATLANTA'S FINE SHOW.
Mrs. E. Deem Gardner, president of the
Keramic Art Club of C~hautauqua, was the
Judge of the competition. Mrs. Gardner had
sole charge of the arrangement OF the New
York City Room in the Woman's Building
at the Atlanta Exposition, and was invited
to tell the club about the room. She said
the room was filed with an exhibition of
keramics from all over the United States.
The reason for that was that New York City
is the headquarters of the National League
of Mineral Painters, and mineral painting
was therefore given as the New York City
subject. There are also to be found IN that
room the collection of 1000 pieces of manu-
script music made by Mrs. Theodore Sutro,
formerly of Jersey City. The decorations
| of the room are in blue and white, the mate
rails having been furnished by New York
CITY merchants. Around a border of the
walls are eighteen PLAQUES in u~nderglaze
blue, painted by Mr.. Charles Volkmar, and
the Washington portraits. In placing the
| chinano effort was made to keep the work
of clubs distinct. The pieces were placed
according to harmony and design. The work
of the Jersey City club was almost entirely
on large pieces, and these were arrange1 on
| the white columns in the room.
HOW WOMANLIKE!
Mr.. Gardner told of a rather amusing ex-
nerience In connection with the numerousiy
| decorated candlesticks. The decorators with
out exception forgot to send shades, and
after shades had been procured 1t was found
that the candle shade holders had been Tor
Gotten. Mrs. Gardner. with two or three
Others ladies went through Atlanta trying
to find them. The result of a days work
was that in the magnificent city Of Atlanta
one candleshade holder was found. Cincin-
natl has the larg~est.Axhibition of china.
Mrs. Freshman, While MRS. GafdneI was
studying the china, brought up for discus
sion the question of whether or not the club
work should be confined to keramics.
Madame LIE Prince, who was present, APP
proved of admitting water color artists. She
considered that water color work is a com
ponent part of china painting. They, like
the Siamese twins, cannot be separated.
Mrs. Gardner also was in favor of it. The
question was left open until next month,
when it is hoped the members will discuss
the question freely
Mrs. Gardner awarded the club Jewel to
Mr.. Paul Ewh, whose plate showed four
kinds Of work,-bronze, paste, enamel and
picture. Miss Florence White received hon
orable mention for her dainty plate of fes-
tooned chrysanthemums. Miss Louise Oar
ling also received honorable mention for the
good paste work ON her plate. Mrs. Gardner
said the standard of the club work was high.
The subjects for the competition in Deem
Der a1e palms and flowers, jeweled borders