Mary Given Sheerer
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Mary Given Sheerer was an American ceramicist, designer, and art educator, best known for her affiliation with the Newcomb Pottery project at H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, now part of Tulane Uni
Newcomb Pottery vase by Mary Given Sheerer and Joseph Meyer
A Newcomb Pottery vase by Sheerer displayed in the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Ellsworth Woodward
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Ellsworth Woodward was an American artist and art educator. During the late 19th century in New Orleans, Ellsworth and his older brother William Woodward were two of the most influential figures in So
Mary Given Sheerer
…While living in Covington in the early 1890s, she worked at Rookwood Pottery Company. In 1894, Newcomb art faculty founders William Woodward and Ellsworth Woodward made Sheerer their first faculty hire. She became a full professor in 1903. From 1903 to 1909, Sheerer was appointed as professor of pottery design and…
Woodward in 1916
"Ursuline and Chartres", Ellsworth Woodward painting of corner in the French Quarter of New Orleans
Abita Springs, 1931 (Ogden Museum of Southern Art)
Female Nude in Mirror, 1900 (Ogden Museum of Southern Art)