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was hired as a potter at approximately the same time as Joseph Meyer, but Ohr left
Newcomb to work on his own sometime in 1897. Meyer's cipher is found on more pieces of Newcomb College Pottery than any other person. Meyer won awards for his work at Newcomb at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo
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Pottery closely reflected the arts and crafts era in which the Pottery was operating. The pottery often depicted Louisiana's local flora, done in blue, yellow and green high glazes. The high point of Newcomb is generally considered to be from 1897 to 1917. During that period
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Newcomb piece consisted of a letter or combination of letters to indicate the year the piece was made, along with a number from 1-100. While most Newcomb pieces do have a
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held an exhibition of
Newcomb College Pottery in the Renwick Gallery of the American Art Museum from November 1984 to February 1985. That exhibition consisted of 210 Newcomb College Pottery pieces. Approximately 30 years later, the Smithsonian put forward another exhibition of Newcomb College
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Pottery was first established, any woman who studied art at Newcomb College was allowed to sell wares that she had decorated, provided it was judged to be adequate for sale by the faculty at the school. Over the years, the Pottery employed dozens of women.
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the Pottery experimented with various glazes and designs, and won numerous awards at various exhibitions throughout the country and in Europe. As the school entered the 1920s, new professors arrived and began to introduce influences from the
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Newcomb College had been founded expressly to instruct young Southern women in liberal arts. The art school opened in 1886 and production of art pottery on a for-profit basis began in 1895 under the supervision of art professors
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Finding aid to the Newcomb College Art Department Collection on Newcomb Pottery, Newcomb Archives and Vorhoff Library Special Collections, Tulane University
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