Object of the Week: Innocent City by Kenneth Dierck
Object of the Week: Innocent City by Kenneth Dierck Posted on: 2020-08-14 10:01:54 Share: Kenneth Dierck (1927-2012) was a printmaker and ceramist born in Tacoma, Washington, known for his whimsical and figural works with a...
From the Archives: 1916 Installation Photographs
From the Archives: 1916 Installation Photographs Posted on: 2020-08-07 10:49:10 Share: The Everson Museum of Art has had several homes throughout its history. The Museum, which began as the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts in...
Object of the Week: Ridge by Frank Goodnow
Object of the Week: Ridge by Frank Goodnow Posted on: 2020-07-31 11:39:53 Share: Frank Goodnow (1923-2004) was born in Evanston, Illinois, and first studied art in Chicago at the now-closed Frederic Mizen Academy of Art...
Object of the Week: Casserole Dish by Glidden Parker
Object of the Week: Casserole Dish by Glidden Parker Posted on: 2020-07-24 09:57:49 Share: Born and raised in Maine, Glidden Parker (1913-1980) began his studies at Bates College in order to become a writer. He...
Object of the Week: The Potter’s Studio by Walter Griffin
Object of the Week: The Potter’s Studio by Walter Griffin Posted on: 2020-07-17 17:20:41 Share: Born in Portland, Maine, Walter Parson Shaw Griffin (1861-1935) was an American landscape painter. Griffin studied painting in Boston, and...
Object of the Week: Refrigerator Pitchers by Hall China Company
Object of the Week: Refrigerator Pitchers by Hall China Company Posted on: 2020-07-10 13:54:10 Share: Given that the Great Depression caused a worldwide economic downturn that specifically ravaged the United States, it may be surprising...
From the Archives: Ceramics at the Golden Gate International Exposition
From the Archives: Ceramics at the Golden Gate International Exposition Posted on: 2020-06-26 08:50:56 Share: A few weeks ago, we shared a blog post about a painting by Beatrice Wose-Smith in the collection of the...
Object of the Week: Where My Dream At? by Mildred Beltré
Object of the Week: Where My Dream At? by Mildred Beltré Posted on: 2020-06-22 09:30:16 Share: Humorous and sly, Mildred Beltré's (b. New York, NY, 1969) Where My Dream At? presents an everyday domestic object...
Object of the Week: Plate by Maria Martinez
Object of the Week: Plate by Maria Martinez Posted on: 2020-06-12 10:32:29 Share: Maria Montoya Martinez (1887-1980) was a celebrated potter from San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. Maria was an active ceramist when modernism was...
From the Archives: Beatrice Wose-Smith and the Golden Gate International Exposition
From the Archives: Beatrice Wose-Smith and the Golden Gate International Exposition Posted on: 2020-06-05 13:37:08 Share: Syracuse native Beatrice Wose-Smith (1908-1971) rose to prominence as a skilled painter in Central New York in the 1930s...
Object of the Week: Pitcher with Dragonfly by Maria Longworth Nichols
Object of the Week: Pitcher with Dragonfly by Maria Longworth Nichols Posted on: 2020-05-29 13:24:29 Share: Born into the wealthy Longworth family of Cincinnati, Ohio, Maria Longworth Nichols (1849-1932) used her family money to found...
Recent Acquisition: Wax Portraits by Ethel Mundy
Recent Acquisition: Wax Portraits by Ethel Mundy Posted on: 2020-05-22 13:39:07 Share: Last year, the Everson acquired two wax portraits of Vera S. Bragg and her daughter Polly by miniaturist and Syracuse native Ethel Mundy...