Mid-Century Potterer Helen Noel Shagam WPA Ray Marshall Ceramic Large Blue Vase
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Mid-Century Potterer Helen Noel Shagam WPA Ray Marshall Ceramic Large Blue Vase:
$199.99
Mid-Century Potterer Helen Noel Shagam WPA Ray Marshall Ceramic Large Blue Vase Shipping Info
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(Click to Enlarge) DescriptionThis is a large blue vase made by Helen Noel Shagam, a listed WPA artist, and Ray Marshall. Signed Ray Marshall July 25 1962 Helen Shagam. Made of beige clay, glazed inside and out.
Measures 9.75x6.5 inches. Very good condition, no chips, cracks, or crazing.
Helen Noel Shagam was born in 1912. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1934. During the Depression, Shagam was a WPA artist, working in charcoal, pastel, lithography, and printmaking. She graduated to ceramics in the 1960s and was a potter for 30 years. Shagam exhibited at the Artist Members Exhibition with the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago in 1966. Later, she taught pottery making at the Jewish Community Center in Chicago, IL, the Kaplan Jewish Community Center in Skokie, IL, and the Rush North Shore Medical Center in Skokie, IL. She participated in the Old Town Art Fair (Chicago, IL) and the 57th Street Art Fair (Chicago, IL) for many years. Shagam died in 1989.
Ray Marshall was born in Canada in 1913. Service in the Second World War took him to England, where he settled. After studying, part-time, at the Guildford School of Art, he went on to the Royal College of Art in London. In 1946, he joined Ray Finch at Winchcombe and then a craft workshop in Surrey. Marshall set up Milland Pottery in Hampshire in 1948 and then a workshop in Stedham, Sussex, in 1952. In 1957, he left the Milland Pottery and continued on his own at Stedham. He died in 1986. Marshall\'s work is exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Shipping Info
Mid-Century Potterer Helen Noel Shagam WPA Ray Marshall Ceramic Large Blue Vase:
$199.99