Edwin and Mary Scheier Elegant Pair of Footed Pale Blue Bowls, c. 1950s carved wood column photographic conventions doesn't tell me

photographic conventions doesn't tell me for sure whether this muscular bare-chested young man was a boxer

To my eye formally

This one came out of the same collection as the Shipibo bowls I've just listed and several of the folk art face carvings

and terrific object hood

Edwin and Mary Scheier Elegant Pair of Footed Pale Blue Bowls, c. 1950s carved wood column photographic conventions doesn't tell meIf in need of a dose of serene beauty (as I think many of us are ) I'd take these two, along with the other Scheier bowl and the Makah basket I've listed today, line them up in a row on a shelf, and take a deep breath. Very lovely, and calming, like earth and sky at once. Because of their several decades spent teaching at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, pieces by widely renowned and influential ceramicists Edwin and Mary Scheier pop up more