id: 161449 accession number: 2000.128 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2000.128 updated: 2023-04-22 12:24:34.919000 Cocktails and Cigarettes Punch Bowl, 1931. Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906–2008), Cowan Pottery Studio (American, Ohio, Rocky River, 1912–1931). Glazed earthenware with engobe, sgraffito; diameter: 42.8 cm (16 7/8 in.); overall: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Elizabeth Mather McMillan 2000.128 title: Cocktails and Cigarettes Punch Bowl title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1931 creation date earliest: 1931 creation date latest: 1931 current location: 226A American Modern creditline: Gift of Elizabeth Mather McMillan copyright: --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: glazed earthenware with engobe, sgraffito department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906–2008) - designed by * Cowan Pottery Studio (American, Ohio, Rocky River, 1912–1931) - made by 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, José 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. --- measurements: Diameter: 42.8 cm (16 7/8 in.); Overall: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The May Show: 13th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen opening date: 1931-05-06T04:00:00 The May Show: 13th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-June 7, 1931). title: Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-century Design opening date: 2000-11-12T00:00:00 Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-century Design. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 12, 2000-February 4, 2001). title: The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s opening date: 2017-04-07T00:00:00 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This punch bowl, designed by a young Viktor Schreckengost and exhibited in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Show of 1931, foreshadows the demise of Prohibition in 1933. Made at the Cowan Pottery Studio in Rocky River, the Cocktails and Cigarettes bowl is a not-so-subtle reference to the two main vices of the Jazz Age. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Viktor Schreckengost Studio Entry Card to 1931 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS02309/ Adams, Henry, and Viktor Schreckengost. Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-Century Design. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release ,” December 12, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: Mentioned: p. 3 url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4361 Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 148-149 url: Coffin, Sarah, Stephen Harrison, and Emily Marshall Orr. The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. 2017. page number: Referenced: cat. no. 333, p. 155, 362, Reproduced: fig. 197, p. 154 url: Kraynak, Scott, Henry Adams, Douglas Max Utter, William G. Scheele, R. A. Washington, and Mike Hudson. The Heart of Cleveland. Shaker Hts, OH: Red Giant Books, 2018. page number: Reproduced: P. 28, fig. 26 url: Bassett, M., et. al. "Learning by Doing: The Evolution of Viktor Schreckengost's Jazz Series." Journal of the American Art Pottery Association 33, no. 4 (Autumn 2017): [12]-28. page number: Reproduced: p. 14, fig. 1, left url: --- IMAGES