- Artist or Maker
- David Cressey
United States, California, Los Angeles, 1916 - 2013 - Title
- 'Glyph' Screen Wall for California State Government Building, Sacramento
- Date Made
- designed circa 1963, this example made circa 1965
- Medium
- Stoneware
- Dimensions
- .1-.6): 102 x 14 x 24 in. (259.08 x 35.56 x 60.96 cm) each
- Accession Number
- M.2010.111.1-.6
- Collecting Area
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Curatorial Notes
David Cressey introduced textured, hand-finished ceramics to Architectural Pottery’s repertoire, working first as the company’s artist-in-residence and then as head of its Pro-Artisan Division. This screen wall was part of his first collection, and although the design was offered in the company catalogue for many years, these glyphs come from the only known commission. To create the tiles, a slab of clay was pressed in a mold and cut. According to the catalogue, each piece would then have “a different relief pattern, no two precisely the same, all harmoniously related.”
(California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way," 2011-12)
- Selected Bibliography
- Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013.
- Selected Exhibition History
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
