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Cocktails and Cigarettes Punch Bowl

Cocktails and Cigarettes Punch Bowl

1931
(American, 1906–2008)
(American, Ohio, Rocky River, 1912–1931)
Diameter: 42.8 cm (16 7/8 in.); Overall: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.)

Description

This punch bowl, designed by a young Viktor Schreckengost and exhibited in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Show of 1931, foreshadows the demise of Prohibition in 1933. Made at the Cowan Pottery Studio in Rocky River, the Cocktails and Cigarettes bowl is a not-so-subtle reference to the two main vices of the Jazz Age.
  • Viktor Schreckengost Studio Entry Card to 1931 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Adams, Henry, and Viktor Schreckengost. Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-Century Design. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
    Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release ,” December 12, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. Mentioned: p. 3 archive.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 148-149
    Coffin, Sarah, Stephen Harrison, and Emily Marshall Orr. The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. 2017. Referenced: cat. no. 333, p. 155, 362, Reproduced: fig. 197, p. 154
    Kraynak, Scott, Henry Adams, Douglas Max Utter, William G. Scheele, R. A. Washington, and Mike Hudson. The Heart of Cleveland. Shaker Hts, OH: Red Giant Books, 2018. Reproduced: P. 28, fig. 26
    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. 14, fig. 1, left
  • The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (April 7-August 20, 2017); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).
    Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-century Design. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 12, 2000-February 4, 2001).
    The May Show: 13th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-June 7, 1931).
  • {{cite web|title=Cocktails and Cigarettes Punch Bowl|url=false|author=Viktor Schreckengost, Cowan Pottery Studio|year=1931|access-date=23 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2000.128