Mary Given Sheerer (1865–1954) 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 University.
Newcomb Pottery vase by Mary Given Sheerer and Joseph Meyer
A Newcomb Pottery vase by Sheerer displayed in the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Newcomb Pottery, also called Newcomb College Pottery, was a brand of American Arts & Crafts pottery produced from 1895 to 1940. The company grew out of the pottery program at H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, the women's college now associated with Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Pottery was a contemporary of Rookwood Pottery, the Saturday Evening Girls, North Dakota pottery, Teco and Grueby.
Group of Newcomb College Pottery pieces showing a variety of forms
Vase with design of pine trees, Henrietta Davidson Bailey decorator, Joseph Meyer potter, 1912
Vase with design of black-eyed Susans, painted by Marie de Hoa LeBlance, 1909
Vase in the "Moon & Moss" style, potted by Francis Ford and decorated by Aurelia Arbo sometime in the 1930s