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Moses

1927
maker

Cowan Pottery Studio

(America, Ohio, Lakewood, 1913–1919)
sculptor

Alexander Blazys

(American, born Russian Empire [now Lithuania], 1894–1963)
America, Ohio, Cowan Pottery Works, Early 20th century
faience (?)
Overall: 48.3 x 21.6 cm (19 x 8 1/2 in.)
Educational Purchase Fund 1928.667
Location: Not on view
  • Purchased from Tenth Annual Exhibition of Work by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen.
  • Boram-Hays, Carol. “At Home in the Metropolis: Art Deco (1915–1935.” Bringing Modernism Home: Ohio Decorative Arts, 1890–1960. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. p. 55.
    Basset, Mark and Naumann, Victoria. Cowan Pottery and the Cleveland School. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1997. pp. 114-5.
    American Craft Museum. Craft in the Machine Age: The History of Twentieth-Century American Craft (1920–1945). New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995. p 150.
    Cowan Pottery Studio Entry Card to 1927 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Hawley, Henry. “Cowan Pottery and the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 7 (September 1989): 238–263. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 245-246, fig. 9 www.jstor.org
    Bassett, M., et. al. "Learning by Doing: The Evolution of Viktor Schreckengost's Jazz Series." Journal of the American Art Pottery Association 33, no. 4 (Autumn 2017): [12]-28. Reproduced: p. 18, fig. 8, left
  • Bringing Modernism Home: Ohio Decorative Arts, 1890-1960. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (January 28-April 17, 2005).
    Columbus Museum of Art (1/28/2005 - 4/17/2005): "Bringing Modernism Home, Ohio Decorative Arts, 1890-1960" ex. cat. no. 19, p. 55.
    Craft in the Machine Age: European Influences on American Modernism, 1920-1945. American Craft Museum (organizer) (October 19, 1995-February 25, 1996); Fort Wayne Museum of Art (September 7-November 3, 1996); Akron Art Museum (January 25-March 30, 1997); Milwaukee Art Museum (June 15-August 15, 1997); Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art (September 1-November 30, 1997).
    Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 28-September 10, 1989).
    Retrospective Twenty-fifth Anniversary May Show. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 13-February 14, 1943).
    The May Show: 9th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 5, 1927).
  • {{cite web|title=Moses|url=false|author=Cowan Pottery Studio, Alexander Blazys|year=1927|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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