Poor Plate Portrait Artist Wife

Poor Plate Portrait Artist Wife (image 1/1)
Pricing & History
HENRY VARNUM POOR Plate incised and painted with a portrait of the artist's wife, Marion Dorn Poor. A few small nicks to rim. Stamped floral Crow House mark. 8" dia. (NOTES: "Henry Varnum Poor always considered himself primarily a painter, although his early commercial success was as a ceramic artist. He studied art at Stanford University, then in 1917 established a studio in San Francisco with his former student, Marion Dorn. He had separated from his first wife, Lena Wiltz, and married Marion in 1919. They moved to Rockland County, New York that year, where he built a studio and home called Crow House. An image of the house became his pottery mark. In 1920 he began potting, for philosophical and practical reasons. Marion Dorn (1896-1964) and Poor divorced in 1923. While married to Poor, she showed in the "Exhibition of Industrial Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. After divorcing Poor, she moved to London and continued a thriving career. She is best known for her carpet designs, which included carpets for Claridge's Hotel in London, the decorator Syrie Maugham, and the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. The British art connoisseur Harold Acton wrote of her work in Memoirs of an Aesthete (1948), "Marion designed modernistic rugs which kept one's eyes riveted to the floor.")
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