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Stonelain
Pitcher - circa 1950
(Associated American Artists)
designed
by Gwen Lux
9-1/2"
high
This
is a large stoneware pitcher, of unique Modernist design,
echoing the form of the Stonelain logo (see below). Covered
in an enhancing, finely crazed, turquoise
hi-glaze.
Designed
and signed by noted sculptress, Gwen Lux, it
fairly screams "nineteen fifties!"
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The
form of this pitcher mirrors that of the Stonelain
logo, seen impressed at left.
The
intertwined "SS" initials -- above and within the
logo -- are those of Stonelain's two master potters
(see below).
The
impressed script signature is that of distinguished
sculptress, Gwen Lux (see below).
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Background:
Associated
American Artists (New York, NY) produced pottery
under the Stonelain label from the early 1940's to
circa 1952, featuring work from some of the
foremost artists of the day, including, Thomas Hart
Benton, Georges Schrieber, Gwen Lux,
Alexander Archipenko, Carl Walters, Jo Davidson,
etc., with master potters William Soini and Frances
Server handling the technical end of production.
(It is their intertwined "SS" initials found inside
the Stonelain logo.)
Gwen
Creighton Lux (b. 1908 - now deceased) was an
important 20th century artist, and a pioneer woman
sculptress. Her many commissions included large
limestone reliefs on the McGraw-Hill building,
Chicago; large metal figures on the exterior of
Rockefeller Center, New York; and the "Four
Freedoms" molded fiberglass central artwork in the
First Class Dining Salon of the SS United
States.
She is listed in Fieldings and Who Was Who in
American Art.
Reference:
Lehner's Encyclopedia of Marks, Lois Lehner,
1988, Collector Books; et al
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Mint.
$
310.
P-90-R
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