Vase Yale University Art Gallery

1938–40

Medium: Glazed stoneware
Dimensions: 14 1/2 × 7 in. (36.83 × 17.78 cm)
Credit Line: John P. Axelrod Collection, B.A. 1968
Accession Number: 2014.97.4
Geography: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Containers
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

Fifty/50, New York, by 1986; sold to John P. Axelrod. Boston, MA., 1986;given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2014

Bibliography

John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 169, no. 108

Jeff Schlanger and Toshiko Takaezu, Maija Grotell: Works Which Grow from Belief (Goffstown, NH: Studio Potter Books, 1996), 52, ill.

Alastair Duncan, American Art Deco (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1986), 114-115, ill.

Gladys Gage Dibble, "Adventurous Experimentation Brings Acclaim to Cranbrook Artist-Teacher," Christian Science Monitor (1952), 40, ill.

Rudolph Rosenthal and Helena L. Ratzka, The Story of Modern Applied Art (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1948), Page opposite 43, ill.

Object copyright

Not Assigned

Additional information

Object/Work type

stoneware, vases

Geometric, Women makers

"MG [script] / CA [conjoined]" inscribed into underside of vase

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