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Cowan Pottery's legacy as a Cleveland institution and an art form
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.
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.
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