Mid-Century Modern Hand-Thrown and Banded Art Pottery Vessel by Randy Webb

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Mid-Century Modern hand-thrown vessel features avocado green and chocolate glazing with high gloss finish, banded cylindrical form with footed base, … Read more Mid-Century Modern hand-thrown vessel features avocado green and chocolate glazing with high gloss finish, banded cylindrical form with footed base, signed, mid-20th century
Provenance: Deaccessioned from the Randy Webb Collection of the Call Museum of Hartsville, New York, 2017

Measures - 5.75" H x 2.5" OP, 3" BS x 4" @ W

*Full collection as photographed; pieces listed separately*

BIOGRAPHY
Randy was born in 1913 and died in 1997. He obtained his MFA, Master's of Fine Art, at Alfred University in 1937 and was Instructor of Industrial Design 1949-1951, and Instructor in Pottery 1951-1956. Randy was nationally known for his paintings and ceramics, named the nation's CERAMIC ARTIST OF THE YEAR IN 1949 BY NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE. His career was dedicated to art and the creation of the Hartsville Museum.
Contemporaries include Ted Randall and Val Cushing and, before, Charles Fergus Binns, an English-born studio potter and the first director of the New York State School of Clayworking and Ceramics, currently the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University See less