The porcelains that freelance artist Gertrude Fass created for Cybis are only one part of her artistic legacy. Among her other endeavors were wonderful portrait busts in terracotta clay. This material was among the first that humans used to create ‘fired’ objects (as opposed to objects made from natural unfired clay) and the word itself [...]
Although unknown to the Cybis collecting community, Gertrude Fass created some of the studio’s most well-known portrait figures. Mrs. Fass was not only a sculptor, however; she was also a painter and a writer for print, radio, stage and screen. Born Gertrude Joan Kossoff in July 1909 to parents Philip Kossoff and Rachel Gindes, she [...]
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