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GUI*WAhiinlarge and small pieces of the beautiful ware that has won distinction for the Overbeck sisters. Three of the more recently designed colored glares are the hyacinth,” which is something the color of a half-ripe raspberry with lavender 'ladings; the “turquoise,” which re-semMes the gem of that name, and a creamy yellow glaze of remarkable purity of tone. '—Founding of Plant—Over the mantel in the studio is a landscape painting whose wonderful j subdued coloring seems to include all the soft tints that have been brought | out in the pottery glazes. The canvas was painted by Margaret Overbeck, who died some time ago. It was while Miss Margaret was studying in the Cincinnati Art Academy that she came to be associated with the Rookwood pottery. She also worked in one of the Zanesville potteries until its destruction by fire, when she returned to Cambridge City, imbued with the idea that a pottery could be established right at home. Wats not the house big enough to afford room for a workshop? Was not the Overbeck talent big enough to design and make the pottery? With the vision of the older sister as an inspiration, the Overbeck pottery was startedin 1911, with Margaret Elizabeth, Mary aqd Hannah Overbeck as workers.Min Elizabeth studied at Madison. Wis., and also had some working experience with an old crockery potter at Germantown (the berg is ‘Pershing since war times), and later completed her training for work at the wheel by study under Prof. Charles F. Burns inthe New York State School of ClayWorking and Ceramics at Alfred, N. Y. i Miss Mary, who does nearly all the designing now, took her training in the department of design in Columbia University. All of her work is stamped with a wonderful imaginative quality. This is true not only in the carved designs that dedbrate much of the pottery, but it is also true in her work wuth oil and water color, as has been remarked when her pictures have been shown at the In-dlfcsui utkts’ 11■rtgjHi 1%n iTHllhl ,maim '■?( wPwli (mmmzmImrtray on a side tabu OMgfct myey e -sae twry-eonfq tursaot was vmotgf*
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Cambridge City Tribune
Cambridge City, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 01, 1920
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