A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana - (Page 409)

JOSEPH FORTUNE MEYER; GERTRUDE ROBERTS SMITH Two Handled Bowl with Phlox Design; 1894-1901 Raised, applied and gloss-glazed earthenware; 7 x 9 in. New Orleans Museum of Art Gift of J. Norcom Jackson, Jr. stepmother encouraged her talents and oversaw her enrollment at Newcomb in 1902. She graduated in 1906, and was listed as an Art Craftsman from 1908-1929. From 1929 until her retirement in 1952, she taught pottery design, embroidery, watercolor, drawing and design, bookplates, and blockprints. Independent and immensely capable, Irvine could draw directly onto the clay shape, perfectly measuring with her eye the various widths. She encouraged her students to think out their designs, and gave them freedom to select modeling in low relief, incisions, painting, or a combination of these methods on the clay shape. She designed many vases with the oak, moss, and moon motif. “I have surely lived to regret it,” she said many years later. “Our beautiful moss draped oak trees appealed to the buying public but nothing is less suited to the tall graceful vases—no way to convey the true character of the tree. And oh, how boring it was to use the same motif over and over though each one was a fresh drawing....” NEWCOMB POTTERY 409  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1174 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1174

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