In Memoriam: Susan Clark Eaton, 1943-2025

In Memoriam: Susan Clark Eaton, 1943-2025

It is with great sadness that I must report the passing of Cybis artist Susan Clark Eaton on May 22, 2025. She had been battling a recurrence of cancer since early this year. Although she already has an Artist Profile here in the Archive, this memorial page will delve deeper into her life and the [...]

The ‘Top Five’ Designers of Cybis Porcelain

The ‘Top Five’ Designers of Cybis Porcelain

We now shift focus from the smallest (smallest limited editions) to the largest: This post identifies the top five sculptors who created the modern-day Cybis porcelains, in terms of how many sculptures they created for the studio (whether or not they were released by Cybis as retail items.) Retail editions that were sold as a [...]

Cybis in Retrospect, Re-created and Updated

Cybis in Retrospect, Re-created and Updated

For this 250th post added to the Cybis Archive, I decided to do something special: A re-creation (as much as is possible) of the 1970-1971 New Jersey State Museum exhibit Cybis in Retrospect. However, I have also expanded the original exhibit contents to include what I believe to be some of the best representations of [...]

Cybis Artist Profile: Susan Clark Eaton

Cybis Artist Profile: Susan Clark Eaton

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 [...]

Cybis ‘Two-Fers’ and ‘Trios’ (Multiple Subjects on a Single Sculpture)

Having previously looked at the pairs, companions, and sets that the Cybis porcelain studio produced, it’s also interesting to see what I call their ‘two-fer’ and ‘trio’ pieces. These are sculptures that have more than one subject, both (or all) being of equal design weight/importance. There was also one sculpture that was composed of four [...]

Cybis Porcelain Gifts of State

Cybis Porcelain Gifts of State

During the 'golden age' of the Cybis studio's production (1960s and 1970s) their pieces were regularly chosen to be official Gifts of State from our country to foreign dignitaries. Presidents Nixon and Ford were particularly fond of doing so, in fact, but in reality that process doesn't begin in the Oval Office. So where does [...]

The Rest of the Cybis Menagerie

The Rest of the Cybis Menagerie

After sorting through all of the various Cybis porcelain animals by genre (cats, dogs, bulls and bears, horses, woodlanders, denizens of the deep, carousel creatures, et al.) there were still a few that refused to fit into a category….and so here they are. One of the most impressive Cybis sculptures was the Dall Sheep. A [...]