The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-15
'The Newcomb Club" Latest Addition to Club Circles in Birmingham, Having for It's Rason Detre the Ad- vancemen of Newcomb Interests Particularly Pottery
nr DOLLY pALnYMpLE

N1 LUB circles in Birmingham have II been augmented within the past
 W fortnight by the organization or
 brand new club which will be known as
 inc Newcomb club and having for it's
 raIson d'etre the advancement and pro
 motion of Newcomb interests.
 Among those who are responsible Tor
 the organization of the club and who Will
 work in it's interests are Misses Ruth
 Lallande, Leila Wood, Edith Orr, Gus
 trine Milner, Virginia Handley, Emily
 Harrison, Mrs Cecil Maxwell Sadie All
 son). Mrs. Monroe Lanier (Katherine)
 Leach), Mrs. S Ravaud Benedict (Martha
 MlIner), Mrs. Claude J. Rogers (Agnes
 McDowen of Ensley), Mrs. H. 10. Mussey
 Bessie Morrison of Ensley), Mrs. Day
 Williams Gillian Or), Mrs. Charles
 Spencer (Genevieve Jackson), and Miss
 Emily Miller of New Orleans, who is
 home here now In the Newcomb club are graduates and undergraduates of the
 Newcomb college proper, and graduates
 and undergraduates of the school of art and school of domestic economy.
 In talking with Mrs. Charles Spencer
 lkIenGVlGNG JdChSOllJ, WllO io OiiS PA va
 most cultured and charming members,
 about the object of the Newcomb club
 and some of the most interesting points
 concerning it, she said, among other
 things
 we are all equally enthusiastic about
 Newcomb and have resolved that in some
 way an arrangement should be made to
 have the beautiful pottery which is mace in the school of art exhibited and put on
 sale in Birmingham. The Newcomb pot
 tery is the leading art manufacture in the
 whole southern section; that it Is entirely souvenir of the far south, the designs be- ing drawn from the floor of the gulf coast and the people who make 1t are also products of the same soil. It IS the first, and so far the only definite ooJect lesson, to show the advancing manufac- turing interests of the south that high class manufacture must be accompanied by artistic skill. When we stop to re fleet we know that all the beautitul things in the south are made in the north. It is therefore doubly interesting to emphasize the fact that this ware, which has won first honors in this country in competition with the world is made in the south"
 ! "The first and perhaps the most note- worthy appeal of this ware is in its ar
  is reasonable since the ware had it's orig in in a school of art and it's very circum- stance of development has been guided by the desire to conform to the hignest leiseals of design and workmanship. 1t IS, moreover, wholly indigenous. The clay I is found in St. Tammahy parish of LoWs- l iana. The designers are southern women | educated in the School of Art of New comb college, New Orleans. The lanc l of the orange and palm the magnolia l and Jasmine, the bearded cypress, the noble oak and the stately yellow pine | has furnished the rich material for dec 1 ora tion hitherto but little used in Amer l ican art inasmuch as art study and us 1 practice had been quite generally con- l fined to northern attitudes.
 | Visitors at the pottery are always l interested in watching the natural ma 1 terial transformed under thc touch ol 1 the designers and become appropriate l decoration for pottery. All in this | process, which does not elude descrip f tion is that the design is drawn witf | a soft pencil on the stiffening claN vessel and Is then incised with stee modeling tool When finished it ha' 1 the effect of low relief modelling. Th' not is then burned and returns to tht | decorator in the unglaZed stage to re l ceiye the color. This is applied witt 1 a brush over the modelled design. Tn l general effect of color-what migh | be called the standard recognizabl l color of Newcomb pottery-is com bination of blue and green, althousi ! there are contrasting touches or vel