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"tombstone": "The Seasons, 1932. Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906\u20132008), in collaboration with Cowan Pottery Studio (America, Rocky River, Ohio, 1920\u20131931). Earthenware; diameter: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.); overall: 29.6 cm (11 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection, 1932.964",
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"title": "The Seasons",
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"measurements": "Diameter: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.); Overall: 29.6 cm (11 5/8 in.)",
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"inscription": "on bottom: \"Viktor Schreckengost.\"",
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"id": 382023,
"title": "The May Show: 14th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen",
"description": "The May Show: 14th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 5, 1932).",
"opening_date": "1932-04-27T04:00:00"
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"id": 445409,
"title": "Art Deco",
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"title": "Art Deco",
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"title": "Art Deco",
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"title": "The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years",
"description": "The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 1982-January 30, 1983).",
"opening_date": "1982-12-22T05:00:00"
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"id": 218478,
"title": "Craft in the Machine Age: European Influences on American Modernism, 1920-1945",
"description": "Craft in the Machine Age: European Influences on American Modernism, 1920-1945. American Craft Museum (organizer) (October 19, 1995-February 25, 1996); Fort Wayne Museum of Art (September 7-November 3, 1996); Akron Art Museum (January 25-March 30, 1997); Milwaukee Art Museum (June 15-August 15, 1997); Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art (September 1-November 30, 1997).",
"opening_date": "1995-10-19T00:00:00"
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"id": 189020,
"title": "Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-century Design",
"description": "Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-century Design. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 12, 2000-February 4, 2001).",
"opening_date": "2000-11-12T00:00:00"
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"id": 200463,
"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).",
"opening_date": "2017-04-07T00:00:00"
}
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"description": "Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; November 12, 2000 - February 4, 2001. \"Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-Century Design\" exh. cat. no. 30, p. 163, color repr. p. 43.",
"opening_date": "2000-11-12T00:00:00"
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"description": "Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (4/7/2017 - 8/20/2017) and The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH (9/30/2017 - 1/14/2018): \"The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s\"",
"opening_date": "2017-04-07T00:00:00"
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"did_you_know": "Cleveland ceramist and industrial designer Viktor Schreckengost produced this vase after returning from a year of study in Vienna. The Cleveland Museum of Art exhibited and purchased it within a year of its creation, giving his new style immediate exposure.",
"description": "Although Viktor Schreckengost was introduced to new ideas in Vienna through the teaching of Michael Powolny and others, the exhibition and acquisition of Dina Kuhn\u2019s Das Wasser (Water) by the Cleveland Museum of Art before his departure in 1929 reveals that he may have already seen Viennese portrait design in his hometown.",
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"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107378447"
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"citation": "Basset, Mark and Naumann, Victoria. Cowan Pottery and the Cleveland School. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1997. pp. 283-6, 314-5.",
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},
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"citation": "American Craft Museum. Craft in the Machine Age: The History of Twentieth-Century American Craft (1920\u20131945). New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995. p 140.",
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"citation": "Viktor Schreckengost Entry Card to 1932 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMS02638"
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"citation": "Hoffman, Jay, Dee Driscole, and Mary Clare Zahler. A Study in Regional Taste: The May Show, 1919-1975. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1977.
Published as: 964.32",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 54, no. 59; Mentioned: P. 79, no. 59",
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}
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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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"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:53:40.081000"
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