Studio Pottery Vase, 1925
Description
Henry Varnum Poor (1888-1970)
Price $575
Signed, monogram "HVP, 25"
Size, 8 3/4" high X 7" diameter
A rare, important, early studio pottery ceramic vase by noted and influential pioneer American ceramicist and painter, Henry Varnum Poor. The vase has repairs to the foot (approx. 2" chip) and a few small chips on the lip of the vase. Otherwise, in excellent condition.
Poor was born in Chapman Kansas, attended Stanford University, graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1910. He later studied at the Slade School in London with Walter Sickert and at the Academie Julian in Paris with Paul Laurens. Taught at Stanford 1911-1914 and at the California School of Fine Arts and the San Francisco Art Association, 1915-1918. After WW1 he moved to New York, exhibited at the Kevorkian Galleries and in 1946 founded the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
The works of Henry Varnum Poor are in many important collections including the Whitney Museum; Art Institute of Chicago; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum and many others.
