Scheier Edwin (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Monograph on the artistic output, primarily in ceramics, of Mary and Edwin Scheier, published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire from September 19 through December 5, 1993. Curated by Michael Komanecky and with text by Komanecky and Edwin Scheier. Traces the long collaboration of the esteemed husband-and-wife team from their individual beginnings through their years working together in Virginia, New Hampshire, Mexico, and Arizona. Showcases their ceramic forms ranging from Bauhaus-influenced utilitarian wares to folk and Oaxacan inspired figural abstraction in sgrafitto and applied sculptural elements on bowls, dishes, and vessels. 4to (7.5" x 11"), printed wrappers, 109 pages, b/w and color illustrations. Minor bumping and light rubbing to extremities; otherwise near fine.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Scheier, Edwin and Mary (illustrator). Scheier, Edwin and Mary. BOWL. Pottery with sgrafitto and glaze decoration, New Hampshire, mid-20th Century. Signed "Scheier" on the base. A small foot flares gracefully upward into a deep, wide bowl, glazed inside and out in a mottled green-red/brown-tan glossy finish, with the exterior decorated with figural forms of fish and animals in a shallow sgrafitto, with a more subtle effect than usually seen in Scheier pieces. 6 iches high, 7 1/4 inches diameter. With great presence and elegance in both the potting and the decoration. In excellent condition: no cracks, chips, dings, flakes or other defects. Edwin Scheier (1910-2008) and Mary Goldsmith Scheier (1908-2007) met while working with the WPA during the Depression. They married in 1937, worked at first as itinerant puppeteers, and opened their first pottery workshop in Virginia in 1939, and moved to New Hampshire in 1940, where they taught for more than 20 years at the University of New Hampshire. In the 1960s, they moved to Oaxaca, Mexico, where their work was influenced by religious and philosophical themes they found in the culture there. In their collaboration, Mary, skilled at creating thin walled thrown vessls and plates, made the pottery, and Edwin developed the glazes and carved the decorations, either as sculpted reliefs or as incised sgrafitto. Sadly, Mary had to stop making pottery in the 1960s because of arthritis and other health problems. The couple retired to Arizona and lived there until their deaths.

Scheier, Edwin and Mary (illustrator). Scheier, Edwin and Mary. PLATE. Pottery with sgrafitto and glaze decoration, New Hampshire, mid-20th Century. Signed "Scheier" on the base. 8 1/2 inch diameter, with a 1 1/4 inch wide rim, and with the 6 inch diameter decorated center depressed about 1 inch below the rim. A sgrafitto design of faces and a bird, with brown, blue and black glazes characteristic of early Scheier pieces. In excellent condition: no cracks, chips, dings, flakes or other defects. Edwin Scheier (1910-2008) and Mary Goldsmith Scheier (1908-2007) met while working with the WPA during the Depression. They married in 1937, worked at first as itinerant puppeteers, and opened their first pottery workshop in Virginia in 1939, and moved to New Hampshire in 1940, where they taught for more than 20 years at the University of New Hampshire. In the 1960s, they moved to Oaxaca, Mexico, where their work was influenced by religious and philosophical themes they found in the culture there. In their collaboration, Mary, skilled at creating thin walled thrown vessls and plates, made the pottery, and Edwin developed the glazes and carved the decorations, either as sculpted reliefs or as incised sgrafitto. Sadly, Mary had to stop making pottery in the 1960s because of arthritis and other health problems. The couple retired to Arizona and lived there until their deaths.