Art Collection

Constance Sawyer (Artist)

Student Portrait

1965

Portrait of a woman, head and torso, in profile view, holding a pen or pencil. Woman is looking down so the bottom half of her face is visible under her hair. She has long hair covering her face, hanging over her shoulder. Outlines and hair in blue, pale greens in background, white short-sleeve shirt. Paint is casein tempera. This painting may be a pair with 2018.007.001.

Jack Edwin Wright (Artist)

lidded jar

mid 1900s

Blue lidded jar with faint decoration of circles and dots; the body of the jar narrows at the foot and neck, leaving a slightly bulbous middle; a repeating pattern of a circle with 4 dots at each corner forming a square around the circle; the design is in black and medium blue over faint brown, wheelthrown.

Doug Sheafor (Artist); AlBo Glass (Manufacturer)

Fresh Produce - Blue

2008

Round blue glass deep bowl with a green rim; bowl sags slightly to one side, with a clear glass foot. This bowl was made later to complete the set, and is the smallest of this set of four bowls.

Wynne Wilbur (Artist)

tea bowl

1900s

Blue glazed tea bowl; the body is cylindrical shaped with straight sides; a flattened and rolled lip; the sides are faceted like a fluted column-like design; small foot; an abstract fan-like design is incised at the bottom of each facet.

Daniel Gegen (Artist)

oval vase

ca. 2005-2007

Slab built straight-sided oval vase; wide strip of glazed blue with lighter blue circles over front; unglazed terracotta with stripes of black slip over sides. Slip glaze with wax resist.

African Artist Unknown

lapa cloth

ca. 1960s

Hand-dyed lapa cloth: dark indigo border, thin blue stipe, and resist from batik resist of pale blue triple zigzag line patterns. Kola (orange dye) and indigo (blue) dyes on cotton damask. Blue is probably from indigo, but pale.

Barbara Waterman-Peters (Artist)

Blue Sky Crow

2003

Black silhouette of a crow on a tree branchl sky is blue with a hint of dark blue/purple at the top. Whole image has black rim, edges are torn (deckled), may by color pencil on handmade black paper.

John Tilton (Artist)

untitled vessel

ca. 2003

Spherical form with a 2 1/8" opening at the top and a 1/4" high lip. Glazed a light sky blue with small blue to greenish crystals formed in the high-fire glaze. The glaze is soda zinc silicate glaze, the colorant is about 1 % cobalt carbonate, 5 % titanium dioxide.

George Smyth (Artist)

vase

ca. 1992

Short round form with small, short neck, flared at the top. Glazed a medium grey with light, cobalt blue crystals mostly at the top half.

Susan Filley (Artist)

lidded jar

1999

Large porcelain lidded jar, deep red to dark blue-green and some graphite and some red highlights. The lid has a large three-sdied, pointed knob, very smooth surface, highly reflective.

Brian Persha (Artist)

bottle

1983

Tall bottle form, with a bulbous lower section in a bright blue, shorter top section is olive. Sgraffito drawing under the glazes.

Edwin Scheier (Artist); Mary Scheier (Artist)

bowl

ca. 1970s

Small deep bowl, glazed a speckled light blue to darker blue towards the rim. Brown foot ring. Decorated on sides with snakelike vertical lines alternating with sections of vertical curved lines, all of which show the brown clay body beneath the glaze.

Otto Heino (Artist); Vivika Heino

bowl

1991-1992

Shallow bowl glazed with a grey with dark iron speckles, blue rim, two blue circles near bottom and one large calligraphic mark at bottom center. Part of a set with 2001.035.016.

McPemaled Eweldt (Artist)

bottle

1989

Bottle or vase form with steep, straight, slanted sides, constricted top orifice that flares out into a small bowl form. Flat base. Light blue with copper red flashing on the sides showing line crazing through the red to blue.

Johnny McDonald (Artist)

untitled

1996

Large clear glass disk with a "planet"-like disc of colored glass enclosed. Inner glass has swirls of iridescent blue green and gold over gray, blue and black glass. Some of the streaks are dichroic glass. Sits vertically on a polished base.

Toshiko Takaezu (Artist)

bottle (#7417)

1993

Oval bottle form with a small 1/16" opening at the top center. Bottom half is brown and black and top half is a blue-violet glaze with deep blue-violet diagonal marks.

Wynne Wilbur (Artist)

bowl

1992

Bowl with straight sides and a flat bottom supported by three small feet. Slightly everted rim with a tab placed on the rim directly above each foot. Transparent, matte turquoise blue glaze. Made from porcelainous stoneware.

Otto Heino (Artist); Vivika Heino (Artist)

untitled

1988-1989

Small round form with small half-inch opening at top. Glazed blue to blue-green, two layers of glaze in a wave.

Professor Moser (Manufacturer)

vase

ca. 1900

Smokey blue vase with applied handles; bulbous body; two different decorations on vase. 1- Asian-like scroll with pink flowers and two blue circles, one circle has blue and gold geometric deigns, other has different types of flowers on a blue background. 2- branch with blue flowers, two pink flowers and green and blue leaves; both sides designs are outlines in gold; designs are done in enamel; gold has rubbed off the asian inspired side.

Philip Hershberger (Artist)

Apples or Tomatoes

1984

Room interior with oblique view of a dining table, with two boxes below the table on the floor. One box contains small round fruit with hints of red. Table is tan, floor is blue-grey/ Table top is in the upper portion of the composition.

Stevens & Williams (Business); Frederick Carder (Designer); Brierley Hill Staffs (Manufacturer)

Brierly Rose vase

1903-1904

Brierley Rose vase (style) Slightly double gourd shape form in pale yellow, pink and cobalt blue; the blue is on the outside layer. Cut overal with a rose and rose foliage pattern. Star cut base.

Richard Slimon (Artist)

Shadows: Between the Points of Measure

1978

Large almost square painting with various grays, tan and green predominating; has the appearance of an aerial landscape view superimposed with horizontally viewed abstract landscape elements.

William Bracker (Artist)

bottle

1978

Oviform with 9 slight circular bumps at shoulder height and a flared neck rim. Squiggly lines drop down from each of the 9 circular bumps. Glaze is in rivulets of transparent dark blue over bumps and rivulets of light olive green. Blue only on top portion. Salt glazed stoneware.

John Kudlacek (Artist)

plate

1973

Low plate or dish with a one-inch flared rim that is unglazed. Inside of plate is glazed in a medium blue with a dark blue applied glaze over most of the interior, with a free form abstract design. Underside of plate is glazed a mottled brown to near the foot ring. Center portion of underside where signature is is also glazed brown. Clay body is greyish with buff and brown specks.

Galerie La Hune (Publisher); Yoshiko Noma (Artist)

Champ XIX

1962

Abstract design, pale blue, gray and black lines create a shaded line through the center, running horizontally.