I recently discovered, via a Polish tourism site, an article from 10 years ago about a circa-1940s ‘lady head bust’ made at the early Cybis studio. It was in a small museum in the village of Kazimierz – a town familiar to anyone who has read the 1920s Paintings or the Timeline posts. Boleslaw Cybis [...]
What was once a brief moment of idle curiosity several years ago has recently blossomed into a question that resulted in the title of this post. It was rather a surprise because, given the type of art created by Boleslaw Cybis himself, Staffordshire export china would seem a very unlikely genre to appeal to him. [...]
Any history of Cybis porcelain would be incomplete without delving, at least somewhat, into its predecessor – the Cordey China Company. Cordey production can be divided into two time periods: Cybis-owned and post-Cybis. The Cybis Era Cordey China was incorporated on October 6, 1942 as a Pennsylvania manufacturing company located at 226 West Columbia Avenue [...]
No retrospective of Cybis porcelain could be complete without paying homage to the woman who created the modern studio's Golden Age. This was Marylin Chorlton, the guiding light who was lost far too soon. It's indisputable that without Marylin's direction there would not have been a Cybis Studio as the world came to know it. [...]
Often some of the most charming snippets of a 'famous' person's life are the little things that never get put into the official record; here are two accidentally-unearthed bits about Boleslaw Cybis. The Bookplate Sometimes it's easy to assume that an artist would always design things for their own use, and often that's true…but not [...]
THE CYBIS ARCHIVE 