id: 161701 accession number: 2000.65 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2000.65 updated: 2025-05-07 16:54:54.791000 New Year's Eve in New York City (Jazz Bowl), 1931. Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906–2008), made by Cowan Pottery Studio (America, Rocky River, Ohio, 1920–1931). 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: New Year's Eve in New York City (Jazz Bowl) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1931 creation date earliest: 1931 creation date latest: 1931 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 (America, Rocky River, Ohio, 1920–1931) - maker 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, Cleveland, OH (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). title: Egyptomania: Fashion’s Conflicted Obsession opening date: 2023-04-01T04:00:00 Egyptomania: Fashion’s Conflicted Obsession. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 1, 2023-January 28, 2024). --- 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: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Basset, Mark and Naumann, Victoria. Cowan Pottery and the Cleveland School. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1997. pp. 189. page number: url: Ostergard, Derek. Art Deco Masterpieces. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1991. p. 44. page number: url: Landau, Diana. Ohio: The Spirit of America. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2001. pp. 83. page number: url: Adams, Henry. “Viktor Schreckengost at 99.” Modernism, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Fall 2005): 74-5. page number: url: Sotheby's. Important 20th Century Design. December 18, 2004. Sotheby's: New York, December 18, 2024. Lot 695. page number: url: Pulsone, Maria et al. Collecting American Decorative Arts and Sculpture (1971–1991). Boston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1991. pp. 23, 64. page number: url: 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: "Discovery through Design." American Fine Art Magazine 65 (Sept/Oct 2022): 72-73. page number: Reproduced: P. 72 url: --- IMAGES