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Four Seasons Vase
1931–32
Viktor Schreckengost
Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906–2008)
Decorative Art and Design
Four Seasons Vase, 1931–32. Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906–2008), Cowan Pottery Studio (American, Ohio, Rocky River, 1912–1931). Earthenware; diameter: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.); overall: 29.6 cm (11 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1932.964 Cleveland ceramicist and industrial designer Viktor Schreckengost produced this vase after returning from a year of study in Vienna. The Cleveland Museum of Art exhibited and purchased it within a year of its creation, giving his new style immediate exposure.
- Maker/Artist
- Schreckengost, Viktor
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- earthenware
- Medium
- earthenware
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.); Overall: 29.6 cm (11 5/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: on bottom: "Viktor Schreckengost."
- Departments
- Decorative Art and Design
- Accession Number
- 1932.964
- Credit Line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Exhibitions
- The May Show: 14th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen, Art Deco, Art Deco, Art Deco, The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years, Craft in the Machine Age: European Influences on American Modernism, 1920-1945, Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-century Design, The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s, Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; November 12, 2000 - February 4, 2001. "Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-Century Design" exh. cat. no. 30, p. 163, color repr. p. 43.<br><br>Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (4/7/2017 - 8/20/2017) and The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH (9/30/2017 - 1/14/2018): "The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s"
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
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