About the artist:

A prolific ceramist, she maintained a midtown Manhattan studio in a converted stable overflowing with artwork. There she also housed a bantam rooster, guinea hens, doves, a rabbit, dogs, and a cat. Her works depict many of these animals, and an exhibit of her work, "A Domestic Bestiary," was at the Perimeter Gallery in Chicago in Februrary, 1998. She first showed in New York at the Egan Gallery in 1961, and had regular shows throughout the 70's and 80's at the Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery on Madison Avenue. She died at the age of 57, in a bicycling accident in New York City.