Lizbeth Stewart (December 22, 1948 – June 24, 2013), who is also known as Lizbeth McNett Stewart, was an American ceramist who was born in

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and grew up in

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. She was awarded a bachelor's degree in fine arts from

Moore College of Art and Design Moore College of Art & Design is a Private college, private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its undergraduate programs are available only for female students, but its other educational programs, including graduate programs, are co-ed ...

in 1971. In 1990, she married Matthew C. Gruskin. For 30 years, she taught ceramics at the

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, before retiring as a professor emeritus in December, 2012. She died June 24, 2013, of lung cancer at her home in

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. Stewart is best known for her hand-built ceramic portrayals of animals. Typically, the modeling is realistic, but the painting is stylized. ''Monkey with Roses'', in the collection of the

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, is typical of her larger works and demonstrates this dichotomy, as well as her use of separate ceramic flowers to create an environment. The

Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the list of ...

(St. Petersburg, Russia), the

, the

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(Washington, D.C.), and the

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(Winterthur, Delaware) are among the public collections holding work by Lizbeth Stewart.Smithsonian American Art Museum website
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Footnotes

References

* Philadelphia Museum of Art, ''Philadelphia, Three Centuries of American Art'', Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976, pp. 641–642 * Torchia, Richard, ''From the Ground Up: Ten Philadelphia Clay Artists'', Moore College of Art and Design, 1992, pp. 15–16

External links

Cook, Bonnie L., "Lizbeth Stewart, ceramicist known for her animals" in ''The Inquirer'', July 05, 2013

Smithsonian American Art Museum website
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