The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-10-06
RICHMOND ARTISTS
TO OPEN STUDIO SHOP
OF ARTS AND CRAFTS

A studio shop is to be opened the
second week in October by six Rich I
mond artists in rooms on the third
floor over GIG Main street The art
lists will specialize in the creation OF
artistic effects and designs and the
carrying out of color schemes in IN
terror decorations and accessories Tor !
any patrons. In this studio, for ex-
ample, persons may have made entire
breakfast sets, including the dishes,
trays. linens, draperies and painted
furniture. in addition to wall decora-
tions TO match in color and design.
Two afternoons week the studio
is to be open and persons wishing TO
visit it at any other time may do so.
by appointment The artists who will
have the shop are: Mrs. Maude Kauf-
man Eggemeyer, Miss Elmire Kemp
ton, Miss Blanche Wait, Miss Bessie
Whitridge, Miss Elizabeth Comstock,
and Miss Elizabeth jay.
A variety of things in arts and
crafts will be done by the artists,
each of whom will specialize in some
particular line. The furnishings, paint
ings and decorations in the studio are
examples of the things which the art
lists are prepared to do. The interior
is elegant for its rich simplicity and
perfect color harmonies.
Harmonize in Color
The studio walls are hung with
paintings. Gaily painted chairs placed
about the room harmonic in color
with tea sets on tables about the
room. In each corner of the room
some color scheme has been carried
out and decorative design applied
to sets.
In one corner the complimentary
colors purple and yellow are carried
out in the decorative scheme. A vel
low tea set with conventionaliZed
flowers applied in flat enamel and a
few pieces of purple china are ar
ranged on table with linen sets in
which the design used on the china
has been applied. The chairs in this
corner of the room are painted yell
low, with designs in contrasting
shades. and others are painted pur-
pie. The paintings on the wall carry
out the color harmonies, as do the
candlesticks and lamp shades and the
stands
In another corner the color scheme
is carried out in blue. All the chairs
. used are antiques. some dating back
as far as 1897. There are wooden
bottom and splnt-bottom chairs and
ladder back chairs, all painted and en-
ameled in bright shades with con-
trasting designs.
Shows Recent Picture
The paintings on exhibition include
figures, still life and landscape work
of Miss Comstock, Miss Kempton,
Miss Waite and Mrs. Eggemeyer
Some of the pictures have been ex-
hibited in the public art gallery. Mrs.
Eggemeyer is showing a few of her
more recent pictures which were
painted this summer at Provincetown,
Mas Anyone interested is invited
TO visit the studio.
Listed below are few of the things
which the studio colony will be pre-
pared to offer.
Old-fashioned chairs and other furni-
ture will be reprinted and decorated
in quaint original designs to harmon
ize with the rooms in which they are
to be used.
The celebrated Overlook pottery
will be handled in large and small
sizes, including lambs. vases and small
flower receptacles.
Needlework may be had in luncheon
and bridge sets, handmade handker-
chiefs, table scarfs, mush and milk
sets for babies, Italian hemstitching,