hand-built and glazed stoneware 18½ h × 9½ w × 6½ d in (47 × 24 × 17 cm)
"A generation of artists raised in cities, removed from the awareness of natural organic forms, is losing touch with the unities of nature. The harmonies of nature's form palette must be as well understood as the more familiar color palette. A city child who has played only with man made blocks and construction sets is at a disadvantage. He has never observed the relationship between the vine and the fruit, or the bush and the flower. He has never gathered eggs warm from the nest, or seen natural erosion, pregnant forms or massive animal forms. The quest of this understanding is to me the all-important factor..." --McVey as quoted in The Ceramic Forms of Leza McVey
Glazed signature to underside: [L].
literature: The Ceramic Forms of Leza McVey, Eidelberg, ppg. 64, 66 illustrate similar forms
