International studio (31.1907)

Boston Arts and Crafts Society


GROUP OP CUPS BY A. J. STONE, GEORGE P. KENDRICK, KARL F.
LEINONEN, ADOLPHE C. KUNKLER, A. J. STONE

The exhibition of the so-
ciety OF ARTS AND CRAFTS,
BOSTON
BY EVA LOVETT
Ten years ago, the Society of Arts and Crafts of
Boston held its first exhibition in Copley Hall, and
nearly the same group of people celebrated the tenth
anniversary of the birth of the society, by an exhibi-
tion held in the same place, and which opened on
February 5, and extended until the 26th of the same
month. During this time, the exhibit was visited
by large numbers of persons daily, its comprehen-
sive character, orderly arrangement and interesting
features making it a fruitful place for study for
craftsman and layman alike.
During that ten years of its existence, the growth
of the society’s membership has been from twenty to
nearly six hundred, extending from Boston to San
Francisco, and from Maine to Louisiana, and its
increasingly high standard of work is displayed in
the distinct superiority of the objects shown over
those of ten years ago. These facts induce the
Society to believe it is to a great degree accomplish-
ing its twin desire of encouraging the production of
beautiful and artistic handwork and the taste and
demand for it.
During its ten years of life, the Society has had
three presidents—Charles Eliot Norton, 1897-1899;

Arthur Astor Carey, 1899-1903, and H. Langford
Warren, who is the present head. From 1897, for
varying terms, the vice-presidents have been:
Arthur Astor Carey, Mrs. Henry Whitman, John
Evans, H. Langford Warren, A. W. Longfellow, J.
Samuel Hodge and C. Howard Walker. The three
latter are serving at present. Treasurers have been
Morris Gray, Frederic P. Cabot and Frederic Allen
Whiting, who is the present treasurer and secretary;
while former secretaries were: George E. Barton,
Harold B. Warren, J. Henry Eames and Henry
Lewis Johnson. The fifteen councillors are : J. T.
Coolidge, Jr.; W. H. Grueby, J. Samuel Hodge, I.
Kirchmayer, John E. Peabody, Arthur J. Stone,
Harold B. Warren, Ralph Adams Cram, Carl H.
Heintzemann, Henry Lewis Johnson, A. W. Long-
fellow, Mary Crease Sears, C. Howard Walker, IP.
Langford Warren and Frederic Allen Whiting.
The number, size and variety of the depart-
ments of last month’s exhibit render much detail
of each impossible. A striking collection of silver-
ware was shown in the department of metals. Two
loving cups were executed by Arthur J. Stone, of
Gardner, Mass. These were loaned by their present
owners, President Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard,
and Edward Hale Abbot, who has been secretary
of the class of Harvard, 1855, for fifty years. They
were decorated with damascene work in gold, the
design a grape-vine on one, and the other gold-

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