Rose Cabat (1914-2015) - Charcoal Bowl with Peach Interior c. 1960s, 5.75" x 8.5"

Excellent condition. Signed by the artist on the bottom. The artist has been featured in Arizona's Antique Register, March/April 2019 Issue, on pages 3 and 4; as well as The American Pottery Association Journal, July/August 2004 Issue, on pages 22-26. Copies of these articles are included. Rose Cabat’s talents were first recognized by her husband and childhood sweetheart, Erni, after he brought home a lump of clay from work one day in 1938. He was so impressed by the vases she coiled that he gifted her a membership with Greenwich House Pottery, where she worked at night to teach herself how to throw on the wheel. Erni, although he could not throw, sometimes helped Rose glaze her pots. Originally from New York, the couple decided to move to Tucson, Arizona, in 1942, for the sake of their first child, who had asthma. There, she and Erni completed their family with two more children. He bought her first wheel, and Rose developed her own glazes. Rose was never interested in assigning a price to her art and relied on Erni to manage the business. After his passing in 1994, their daughter June took over. Rose’s pottery, endearingly called “Feelies,” is often modeled after nature, taking on organic shapes, such as onions, pears, and figs. As Bruce Block puts it, “For me, they are the most Zen of pottery.” She was an influential ceramicist of the Mid-century Modern movement.