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Spanish Dagger Plate, ca. 1907 Low-fire white clay with blue and green underglaze with glossy glaze; 13 in. Newcomb Art Collection, Tulane University Gift of Ms. Floy Mattox 172 LOUISIANA: THE NEW CENTURY MARY SHEERER b. 1865, Covington, Kentucky d. 1954, Covington, Kentucky Hired as a new graduate of the Cincinnati Art Academy in Ohio, inventive ceramics designer, china painter, and educator Mary Sheerer was a major influence on Newcomb Pottery, an art form she once described as “made of Southern clays, by Southern artists, decorated with Southern subjects.” Sheerer developed Newcomb’s earliest glazes starting in 1896 with tubs of clay from the Bogue Falaya River across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans. Sheerer was designated to attend in the summer of 1925 the Exposition of Decorative Arts in Paris, where she observed science-and-mechanics-oriented designs of right angles and triangles that inspired Newcomb’s later abstract designs. LEH  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1356 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1356

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