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"tombstone": "Trojan Plate, 1931. Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906\u20132008), Cowan Pottery Studio (America, Rocky River, Ohio, 1920\u20131931). Ceramic with underglaze painting and clear glaze; diameter: 6.4 x 43.2 cm (2 1/2 x 17 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection, 1931.1760",
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"title": "Trojan Plate",
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"inscription": "on back: \"VIKTOR . SCHRECKENGOST.\"",
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"title": "The May Show: 13th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen",
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"title": "Work of Cleveland Artists for the 41st Annual Meeting of the College Art Association",
"description": "Work of Cleveland Artists for the 41st Annual Meeting of the College Art Association. The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-31, 1953).",
"opening_date": "1953-01-29T05:00:00"
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"title": "Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-century Design",
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"title": "The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s",
"description": "The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (April 7-August 20, 2017); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).",
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"description": "Viktor Schreckengost decorated this charger for Cowan Pottery shortly after his return from studying in Vienna, where he honed his skills in drawing heroic figures and geometric patterns.",
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"citation": "Basset, Mark and Naumann, Victoria. Cowan Pottery and the Cleveland School. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1997. pp. 283, 285-6.",
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"citation": "Coffin, Sarah D., and Stephen Harrison. The Jazz Age: American style in the 1920s. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017.",
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"biography": "The Cowan Pottery Studio was founded by R. Guy Cowan in Lakewood, Ohio, United States in 1912. It moved to Rocky River, Ohio in 1920, and operated until 1931, when the financial stress of the Great Depression resulted in its bankruptcy. Cowan Pottery produced both artistic and commercial work in a variety of styles influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement, Art Deco, Chinese ceramics, and modern sculpture.
During its two decades of operation, a number of well-known Cleveland School artists worked with Cowan at the studio: Elizabeth Anderson, Arthur Eugene Baggs, Alexander Blazys, Paul Bogatay, Edris Eckhardt, Waylande Gregory, A. Drexler Jacobson, Raoul Josset, Paul Manship, Jos\u00e9 Martin, Herman Matzen, F. Luis Mora, Elmer L. Novotny, Margaret Postgate, Stephen Rebeck, Guy L. Rixford, Viktor Schreckengost, Elsa Vick Shaw, Walter Sinz, Frank N. Wilcox, H. Edward Winter, and Thelma Frazier Winter. With the exception of Guy Cowan, himself, Waylande Gregory designed more pieces for the pottery than anyone else. Among Cowan's finest pieces were three limited edition figures relating to dance, including \"Salome\" (1928), \"The Nautch Dancer,\" (1930), and \"The Burlesque Dancer,\" (1930). For the last two, Gregory made sketches from the side of the stage of the well-known Ziegfeld Follies star, Gilda Grey, when she was performing in Cleveland.",
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