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Edwin Scheier (USA, 1910-2008), Two wall-hanging tapestries,…
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Auckland
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3-Nov-2021
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Edwin Scheier (USA, 1910-2008), Two wall-hanging tapestries, wool weavings with symbolic scenes in brown and white, 133 x 94 cm & 200 x 80 cm. Provenance: passed by descent to the current owner. Other Notes:
Edwin Scheier (1910-2008) and Mary Goldsmith (1908-2007), met at the Big Stone Gap Federal Art Gallery in Abingdon, Virginia, where Goldsmith was director. After their marriage in 1937, they became travelling puppeteers, designing and building their own puppets, and in 1938 the Scheiers worked with the Federal Art Project in Norris, Tennessee where they learned about ceramics, eventually setting up their own pottery shop in Glade Spring, Virginia.
In 1941, they were invited to the University of New Hampshire to teach ceramics. During their employment at UNH, the Scheier's visited Mexico several times and became interested in both the archaeological artifacts they saw and the weavings done by the Zapotec Indians, for whom Edwin began to create designs for weaving. After they retired from UNH in 1960, the Scheiers lived in Mexico for ten years before finally settling in Arizona.
The Scheiers' work has been exhibited in a number of American museums including the Currier Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the New York Museum of, The Museum of Modern Art, Worcester Art Museum, Walker Art Center, the University of Arizona Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Addison Gallery. Works by Scheier have also appeared in The International Museum of Ceramics, Fenza, Italy; Royal Ontario Museum, Canada; Instituto Mexicano Norteamericano de Relaciones Culturales, Mexico City; and museums in Japan and Germany. (Source: https://library.unh.edu/find/archives/collections/edwin-mary-scheier-pottery-collection)
Edwin Scheier (1910-2008) and Mary Goldsmith (1908-2007), met at the Big Stone Gap Federal Art Gallery in Abingdon, Virginia, where Goldsmith was director. After their marriage in 1937, they became travelling puppeteers, designing and building their own puppets, and in 1938 the Scheiers worked with the Federal Art Project in Norris, Tennessee where they learned about ceramics, eventually setting up their own pottery shop in Glade Spring, Virginia.
In 1941, they were invited to the University of New Hampshire to teach ceramics. During their employment at UNH, the Scheier's visited Mexico several times and became interested in both the archaeological artifacts they saw and the weavings done by the Zapotec Indians, for whom Edwin began to create designs for weaving. After they retired from UNH in 1960, the Scheiers lived in Mexico for ten years before finally settling in Arizona.
The Scheiers' work has been exhibited in a number of American museums including the Currier Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the New York Museum of, The Museum of Modern Art, Worcester Art Museum, Walker Art Center, the University of Arizona Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Addison Gallery. Works by Scheier have also appeared in The International Museum of Ceramics, Fenza, Italy; Royal Ontario Museum, Canada; Instituto Mexicano Norteamericano de Relaciones Culturales, Mexico City; and museums in Japan and Germany. (Source: https://library.unh.edu/find/archives/collections/edwin-mary-scheier-pottery-collection)
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Textiles & Fabrics: Zother