1960s EDNA ARNOW STUDIO POTTERY BOWL/VASE/CACHEPOT WITH A VOLCANIC PUMICE GLAZE

A highly textural studio pottery bowl with a volcanic glaze by Chicago potter Edna Arnow.  It features a nice bubbly glaze in perfect condition.  5.5 x 7.25 EDNA ARNOW (1921-2013) was a well-known Chicago area studio potter and sculptor who received early instruction from Leah Balsham at The Art Institute of Chicago, but was otherwise largely self taught.  For more than 40 years, Arnow made stoneware pottery in the basement of her house in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side, where she started out on a wheel that her husband Robert made for her using an old washing machine. In the 1950s, Arnow was part of the important artist collective 'Exhibit A Gallery', together with Earl Hooks, Leo Segedin, Eve Garrison, Frank Petersen, and Tristan Meinecke.  She also exhibited her work at The Art Institute of Chicago, at The Chicago Public Library, and at the Ceramic Nationals in Syracuse, New York in 1956 and in 1962.  Edna was friends with most of the local inde