Mary Louise McLaughlin
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Mary Louise McLaughlin was an American ceramic painter and studio potter from Cincinnati, Ohio, and the main local competitor of Maria Longworth Nichols Storer, who founded Rookwood Pottery. Like Stor
Portrait of Esther McLaughlin (the artist's niece), by Mary Louise McLaughlin, 1882, on porcelain
A soup bowl by McLaughlin, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Clara Chipman Newton
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Clara Chipman Newton was an American artist best known as a painter of porcelain and china.
Mary Louise McLaughlin
…underglaze technique. Eventually other artists began utilizing this same technique, and in 1879 McLaughlin founded the Cincinnati Pottery Club along with Clara Chipman Newton and others. While it might seem logical that Storer would join the group, she declined an invitation to do so. This rivalry is likely what caused her…
Clara Chipman Newton as painted by Mary Louise McLaughlin
Earthenware teapot with bronze handle, inscribed "Made by Clara Chipman Newton for Maria Longworth Nichols with deepest appreciation and affection Dec. 25, 1882." Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum