Description
Early Edgar Littlefield bowl 1940 possible fruit serving bowl. Leaves or petal design. I have two small bowls in same color in separate listing. Edgar Littlefield BIOGRAPHY Edgar Littlefield is known for high-fired stoneware pottery surfaced with geometric patterns and animal imagery, as well as solid colors. Littlefield was a graduate student at Ohio State University in the 1920’s and began working as a professor there in 1929. Potter Arthur E. Baggs, was one of Littlefield’s professors at Ohio State University. When Littlefield joined the faculty Baggs became his mentor. Littlefield’s pottery has the distinction of winning two First Prizes in the Robineau Memorial Ceramic Exhibitions, Syracuse Museum of Fine Art (now the Everson Museum), Syracuse, New York.