Although freelance artist Dolores Valenza was a relative latecomer to porcelain sculpture, she first began creating art as a very young child. She credited her numerous visits to The Brooklyn Museum as being one of her earliest influences and was especially drawn to the work of the Impressionists. Later she attended the Pratt Institute which [...]
Collectors of art porcelain may not have known Patricia Eakin’s name, but they were undoubtedly familiar with her work. She was yet another of the unsung heroes of the industry. Patricia Jean Eakin was born on October 25, 1914 in Virginia. She had an older sister, Kathleen, and would have a younger brother, Birch, after [...]
One of the most noted freelance sculptors of Cybis bird and animal studies was Charles Oldham, affectionately known as ‘Chuck.’ He was born in 1950 in Philadelphia and lived there until the age of eight, displaying an innate talent for sculpting by fashioning items even in grade school and with no formal training. His high-school [...]
Even if you are familiar with the limited-edition Cybis carousel pieces, you might not know who created almost all of them: artist Susan Clark Eaton. Sue first attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art before going on to college. She joined the studio in the late 1960s, originally as an in-house artist, but in 1971 [...]
Helen Granger Young was one of several freelance sculptors who designed for the Cybis studio during the 1970s. Unlike most of their other designers, Mrs. Young’s work for them was limited to a single genre: portraits of Native Americans. She was born in Mimico, Ontario, Canada on November 1, 1922. A common error found on [...]
Cybis sculptures that were designed by freelance artist Harry Burger are perhaps the easiest to identify, even though his name never appeared on any of them. He had a particular style that sets his pieces apart as soon as one knows what to look for – whether the item in question was produced by Cybis [...]
Sculptors, moldmakers, assemblers, and painters were not the only artists who contributed to the success of the Cybis porcelain studio. Print advertising was critical in those pre-Internet decades. Images of Cybis sculptures appeared in two formats: photographs, for use in their catalogs, brochures, and magazine ads; and illustrations, for use in newspapers. Although a photocopy [...]
Although the studio always emphasized Boleslaw as its founder, his wife Marja Cybis was a talented artist in her own right and no doubt contributed just as much to its success as he did. Unfortunately she has gotten short shrift in Cybis studio literature, usually relegated to a brief mention in a description in a [...]
A veteran artist of the Cybis studio's 'golden age', William Pae has always been a man of many talents: sculpture, painting, drawing, woodworking and even in the baseball field (but more about that later.) If you have even a nodding acquaintance with Cybis porcelain you've seen his work even though – as was studio policy [...]
Lynn Klockner Brown was one of the most prolific and longest-resident artists at the Cybis studio, creating more than 60 of their sculptures, 43 of which were limited editions. She designed in all of their genres but had a special affinity for the equine sculptures as well as the Portraits in Porcelain. Born in Lawrenceville, [...]
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