id:			118113
accession number:	1939.231
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.231
updated:		2023-03-25 11:14:23.164000

Head, 1940. Thelma Frazier Winter (American, 1905–1977). Ceramic; overall: 40 x 24.2 cm (15 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1939.231

title:				Head
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creation date:			1940
creation date earliest:		1940
creation date latest:		1940
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creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	ceramic
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Decorative Arts
type:		Ceramic
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CREATORS

* Thelma Frazier Winter (American, 1905–1977)  - artist
Frazier grew up in New Philadelphia, Ohio, and studied ceramics with Julius Mihalik at the Cleveland School of Art, graduating in 1929. In the late 1920s she and sculptor Waylande Gregory worked at Cowan Pottery as the firm’s principal artists. She first exhibited in the 1934 May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and continued to do so until 1949. She showed in the annual National Ceramic exhibitions in Syracuse, New York (1935–58), where in 1939 she became the first woman to win a first place award. After a post graduate study in art education at Western Reserve University in Cleveland and Ohio State University, she began teaching in Cleveland public schools. In 1939 the Little Gallery of Cleveland College mounted an exhibition of her works. That year she married the enamelist Edward Winter, whom she had met at Cowan Pottery. She continued to paint and work with clay until the late 1950s, garnering several large-scale ceramic commissions from churches and schools. In 1958, under her husband’s influence, Winter took up enameling, and collaborated with him on a number of enamel mural commissions in the 1960s and 1970s. <br><em>Transformations in Cleveland Art.</em> (CMA, 1996), p. 241<br>Biographical information exists in the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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measurements: Overall: 40 x 24.2 cm (15 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The May Show: 21st Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen
	opening date:   1939-05-03T04:00:00
	<i>The May Show: 21st Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 3-June 11, 1939).

	title:		The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years
	opening date:   1982-12-22T05:00:00
	<i>The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 1982-January 30, 1983).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* purchased at the "21st Annual Exhibition of Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen," (May Show): May 3 - June 11, 1939. <br>CMA, 1982: "The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years," cat. no. 44, p. 29, not reproduced

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Thelma Frazier Winter Entry Card to 1939 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMS05036/

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