id: 161701 accession number: 2000.65 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2000.65 updated: 2023-03-20 16:31:19.400000 The New Yorker (Jazz) Bowl, c. 1930. Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906–2008), Cowan Pottery Studio (American, Ohio, Rocky River, 1912–1931). Glazed ceramic with sgraffito design; overall: 28.6 x 41.3 cm (11 1/4 x 16 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2000.65 title: The New Yorker (Jazz) Bowl title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1930 creation date earliest: 1925 creation date latest: 1935 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: glazed ceramic with sgraffito design department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906–2008) - designer * 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: Overall: 28.6 x 41.3 cm (11 1/4 x 16 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age opening date: 2004-03-28T00:00:00 Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 28-July 18, 2004). title: Gallery One 2012 opening date: 2012-12-12T05:00:00 Gallery One 2012. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017). title: The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s opening date: 2017-04-07T00:00:00 The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Cincinnati Art Galleries, June 3, 2000, Lot 143, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 2000 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art date: 2000-? footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The blue-black color scheme of this bowl references ancient Egyptian ceramic glazes in the same palette made popular after King Tut's tomb was discovered in 1922. digital description: The first Jazz Bowl (location unknown) was commissioned around 1930 by Eleanor Roosevelt when her husband was governor of New York. She allegedly requested a design that reflected the exciting nightlife of New York City. A young Viktor Schreckengost had just begun his career at the Cowan Pottery Studio in Rocky River, Ohio, when he was given the task of expressing the jazzy pulse of the times in clay. Cowan liked the design so much that a small edition of similar bowls was put in production. The bowl's design was created by scratching through a thin covering of black clay (called slip) to reveal the white ceramic underneath. After the bowl was fired once, it was covered with a rich glaze of Egyptian blue and fired again for the final time. wall description: For Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s second inauguration as governor of the State of New York, his wife Eleanor commissioned a punch bowl from a Manhattan art gallery, which in turn asked Cowan Pottery in Rocky River, Ohio, to produce it. Conceived by Cleveland industrial designer Viktor Schreckengost, the bowl reflects the sights and sounds of New York’s vibrant Jazz Age nightlife. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “French 19th-Century Double Portrait Acquired; Jazz Bowl Purchased at Auction,” June 19, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4343 Adams, Henry. Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-Century Design. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: cover, pp. 88-95, 165, cat. no. 128 url: Landau, Diana. Ohio: The Spirit of America. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001. page number: Mentioned: p. 83; reproduced: pp. 7, 83 url: Robinson, William H., Kathleen McKeever, "And All That Jazz", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 44 no. 05, May 2004 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4-5 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2004-05/page/n3 Adams, Henry. What's American About American Art?: A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 124-5 url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=294879034 Franklin, David, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with, New York, NY: Scala Publishers, 2012. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 312-3 url: Bidwell, Frederick E., and Leslie Cade. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with New York, NY: Scala Arts Publishers, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 148-9 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, right; p. 16, fig, 3, left; p. 23, fig. 17, above; p. 26, fig. 23, below url: Coffin, Sarah, Stephen Harrison, and Emily Marshall Orr. The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, distributed by New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. page number: Reproduced: pp. XII, 154; mentioned: pp. 155, 362, cat. 334 url: --- IMAGES