We wanted to serve up some great content, so we’re dishing out some of Keramic Studio’s wonderful plate designs. Find all 20 volumes (save 1) in our digital library.
Keramic Studio was a monthly journal of ceramics founded in 1899 by ceramic artist Adelaide Alsop-Robineau. It’s full of lovely illustrations like this one of nasturtiums by Henrietta Barclay Paist, from the supplement in v.6.
See Keramic Studio in our Digital Library for many more volumes, and learn more about Alsop-Robineau here.
The crowds may flock to Washington, DC for the National Cherry Blossom Festival around the tidal basin, but if you were to visit the same area a little bit after the last of the cherries, you should still find a number of crab-apple trees in full bloom around the FDR memorial. There is also a grove of crabapples lining the SE section of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Best part IMO – the pleasant fragrance is more noticeable than for the cherry blossoms. And less crowds – definitely less crowds!
The image is an apple blossoms design by Alice Wllits Donaldson in Keramic studio, v. 12 (May 1910-April 1911). The journal of ceramics is full of more wonderful illustrations, so go take a look. You can read more about the journal, and the woman who founded it, on in this blog post from a couple years ago.
Looking for some Arts & Crafts inspiration? These vases from v. 19 of Keramic Studio (May 1917-1918) might help. The journal is full of design inspiration from the field of ceramics, along with an insight into women’s history worth mentioning.
Keramic Studio was a monthly magazine dating from 1899. It’s a wonderful resource, with ample illustrations for ceramic decoration that reflects turn-of-the-century design from the American Arts & Crafts Movement. The examples above are designs by Adelaide Alsop-Robineau, one of the two women who founded and edited the journal.
Alsop-Robineau is recognized as one of the most important American ceramists of the late 19th and early 20th century American Arts and Crafts Movement. She was also one of the few women to make her pots “from clay to finish,” rather than focusing exclusively on decoration.