Decorative Sunday

In 1899, American potter and ceramicist Adelaide Alsop Robineau founded the monthly publication Keramic Studio with her husband, the French ceramics expert Samuel E. Robineau. Initially, the ceramic artist and social reformer Anna Byford Leonard shared editing responsibilities, but within a few years, Adelaide took over sole editorship and the publication stayed in print under that name for twenty years. The above images, collected in a portfolio of 50 plates (40 black and white and 10 color), were reprinted images from a monthly magazine called Design - Keramic Studio, published in Syracuse by the Keramic Studio Publishing Company, date unknown. 

The earliest incarnation of Design - Keramic Studio I have been able to locate is from May 1919, suggesting Design - Keramic Studio was the next incarnation of Keramic Studio, which had concluded its run in that name in 1919. Design - Keramic Studio took a broader look at the decorative arts beyond ceramics and was marketed toward “the art teacher, student and designer.”

Adelaide Alsop Robineau passed away in February of 1929, and art educator Felix Payant took over editorship of the magazine, which was rebranded as Design but continued to bear Keramic Studio as a publisher for a number of years. Payant remained in his role as editor until 1947. Eventually the magazine relocated to Indianapolis and continued publishing until Fall of 1977 under a number of different publishers. 

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-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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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.

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#KasamaCollaborations の企画で 英国の作家カネコレイコさんに絵付けをしていただいた作品です♪ #Repost @kasamapotters with @make_repost ・・・ As part of our #KasamaCollaborations project, accomplished ceramicist and designer, Reiko Kaneko (@reikokanekoceramics) was paired with Kasama potter Takahiro Manome (@manome_studio), who is well known for his dedication to texture and form. As part of the Kasama Collaborations project, Manome painted and glazed two of Kaneko’s ceramic pieces; likewise, Kaneko painted and glazed several of Manome’s pieces. Kaneko recalls receiving the ceramics: ‘As I unwrapped the ceramics from their Japanese newspapers, I smelt the gas heaters often used in workshops in Japan. It took me right back and made me pine for Japan. I feel privileged to work with individual potters there.’ These unique collaborative pieces are available to purchase via commission. 📷 = Takahiro Manome (@manome_studio) x Reiko Kaneko (@reikokanekoceramics). Photography by @markcocksedge . - - - - #KasamaCollaborations #clayart #ceramicstudio #instaceramics #ceramicsuk #ceramicartdaily #ceramicartstudio #clayart #ceramicsstudio #ceramicsdaily #studiopottery #japanesetradition #studio #maker #ceramicist #art #design #ceramics #keramic #kasamapotters #pottery #making #makers #ceramicists #japanesecraft #craft https://www.instagram.com/p/CcWvBUWvWQD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

From our periodicals holdings: Keramic Studio, v. 20, May 1918-Apr. 1919. An amazing resource for researchers - and for contemporary designers; come in to view these anytime we’re open.

Rosenthal Empire Bavaria Arts & Crafts Tea Pot (c.1907-1940) - Keramic Studio Design

The Apotheosis of the Toiler

Adelaide Alsop Robineau was born in 1865, moving to Syracuse, New York at the age of thirty-five. She began her career as a China painter, as within the industry at the time, women were allowed to decorate the ceramic form but were not permitted to throw the form itself. China painting was also a popular “women’s hobby” at the time. Robineau found this to be an entry point into the world of ceramics, studying painting under William Merritt Chase and then ceramics under Charles Binns at Alfred University. She, with the assistance of her husband Samuel, established an artist’s studio and the first American magazine to focus on ceramic arts and design, Keramic Studio. 

Known today as the “Mona Lisa of the ceramics world”, Adelaide Alsop Robineau’s magnum opus is colloquially named The Scarab Vase (1910) for its scarab beetle motif adorning the surface. 

Ancient Egyptians regarded the scarab beetle as holy, and it was used as a symbol of day and night, life and death, and immortality. The beetle is also known as a “dung beetle” for its habit of rolling a ball of dung to the entrance of its home each night and rolling it away when it emerges in the morning. Robineau’s reference was in part to reference the daily cycle of a laborer and in part to evoke the phenomenon of Egyptomania, the European interest in Egyptian culture following Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign of the early 1800s. 

The vase itself is porcelain, standing at just over sixteen inches tall. Robineau is rumored to have spent nearly one thousand hours bringing it to full realization. She began by throwing the porcelain clay body and allowing the form to reach the bone dry stage, when she then followed by using a surgical scalpel to carve into the form (a tactic that is extremely precarious and never recommended for ceramicists). Because of the pressure this put on the dry clay, Robineau could only treat the surface of anywhere from the size of a dime to a nickel in the course of a day. This process became so intense that if one holds up the case to a light, there are portions carved so far away that the light will shine through the clay body. 

Robineau’s labor gives credence to the piece’s actual title: The Apotheosis of the Toiler, which refers to the unacknowledged labor and unacknowledged talent of craftspeople. With this work, she felt a connection between the public treatment of craft and the public treatment of women; both were similarly dismissed by the art world and ignored by everyone else. Robineau, as the Toiler, was trying to elevate the status of both not past what they were considered to be below, but to equal consideration. She, as a woman and a craftsperson, wanted to lay claim to her right to be called an artist.

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Art Nouveau: The Essential Reference - Carol Belanger Grafton

Art Nouveau: The Essential Reference The Essential Reference Carol Belanger Grafton Genre: Design Price: $18.99 Publish Date: March 22, 2016 Publisher: Dover Publications Seller: INscribe Digital "This is a gorgeous book, ideal for any lover of Art Nouveau." —bookaddiction Dover's extensive library of Art Nouveau graphic art and typography serves as the source for this comprehensive volume, which features hundreds of magnificent full-color and black-and-white illustrations. Images by virtually every key artist of the Art Nouveau movement include the work of Alphonse Mucha, E. A. Seguy, Aubrey Beardsley, Koloman Moser, Max Benirschke, and M. P. Verneuil. Selections from rare books and portfolios of the period include works never reprinted since their initial publication. This book also reprints material from the major Art Nouveau periodicals, including Jugend, The Studio, Dekorative Vorbilder, and The Keramic Studio. Detailed bibliographical information concerning every source ― including biographical details of each artist ― makes this collection a vital reference tool as well as a stunning compendium of significant and beautiful Art Nouveau graphics. Students of graphic art, typography, and illustration, as well as graphic designers and advertising professionals, will prize this remarkable resource. http://dlvr.it/R6T32z

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Porcelain Blank Arts & Crafts "Mountain Ash" Design Pitcher (Signed "E.M. Gwen Koer"/c.1905-1940) - Keramic Studio Design

Japanese lantern flowers from Keramic Studio, v.18 (May 1916-Apr. 1917).

The impressive journal was founded by Adelaide Alsop-Robineau and Anna B. Leonard. Find out more about the journal here.

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