<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4547759e-a07e-48f7-ad32-87fea4df001d/872449C6-1102-4D5F-B6E1-463E6D4947C3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2009/01/cowan_potterys_legacy_as_a_cle.html" href="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2009/01/cowan_potterys_legacy_as_a_cle.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cleveland.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2009/01/cowan_potterys_legacy_as_a_cle.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cleveland.com/img/7CBCFCB2-A1F0-4FF8-B8A0-9F2BC19C696C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2009/01/cowan_potterys_legacy_as_a_cle.html"><SPAN class="caption">The 1930 "Egyptian Maidens" mural by Elsa Vick Shaw, a Cowan artist, was recently restored and is prominently displayed near the entrance of the Rocky River Public Library, home of the Cowan Museum. <P><STRONG>ONLINE EXTRAS</STRONG> • <A href="http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2009/01/guy_cowans_life_and_career_a_t.html">A Cowan timeline</A> </P></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2009/01/cowan_potterys_legacy_as_a_cle.html">Thelma Frazier was the rare woman making her living as a sculptor in the 1920s-- something far more unusual then than now. In the same Rocky River studio where she worked, another artist would design a famous punch bowl with an Art Deco motif that would be purchased by one of the century's best-known first ladies. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2009/01/cowan_potterys_legacy_as_a_cle.html"><P> And this same business -- which would sell its wares at department stores like Gump's in San Francisco and Saks Fifth Avenue in New York -- was created with money invested by some of Cleveland's wealthiest arts patrons, with familiar names like Severance and Burke. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2009/01/cowan_potterys_legacy_as_a_cle.html"><P> Cowan achieved that with such panache that some of his pieces were featured on Hollywood's silver screen in the 1930s. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/872449C6-1102-4D5F-B6E1-463E6D4947C3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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