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  Dorothy Reno Grover, “California Interior with black cat”, Oil on canvas c. 1950’s

  DOROTHY RENO GROVER (1908-1975) USA

  “California Interior with black cat” c. 1950’s

  Oil on Canvas

  Canvas: H: 40″ x W: 34 1/2″

  Framed: H: 42″ x W: 36 1/2″

  Born in Dallas, TX on Sept. 10, 1908 into a pioneer Texas family. (Her grandfather was mayor of Dallas, and Brownsville, Texas is named for him.) Dorothy Reno moved to California with her family at age ten and settled in San Mateo. After graduating from Mills College, she obtained an M.A. degree from UC Berkeley. She wed radio announcer John B. Grover in 1931 and settled in Oakland. In 1971 she bought the former home of artist Glenn Wessels in Berkeley where she remained until her death.

   

   

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  Jacques Sicard / Weller Pottery French Art Nouveau iridescent vase c. 1901-1907

  JACQUES SICARD (décor) (1865-1923) France

  WELLER POTTERY (form) Zanesville, OH

  Vase c. 1901-1907

  Earthenware with handpainted multicolored iridescent glaze

  Other works by Sicard illustrated: Decorative Art 1880-1980, Dan Klein & Margaret Bishop (Oxford: Christie’s Ltd./Phaidon,1986) p. 109; The Ideal Home: 1900-1920, ed. Janet Kardon (New York: American Craft Museum, 1993) p. 166.

  H: 9″

  In 1902, Samuel Weller invited Sicard and his assistant Henri Gelie to Zanesville, where they developed a spectacular line of iridescent pottery called “Sicardo-Weller”.   Sicard left the Weller Pottery in 1907 and never revealed the secrets to their copper-lustre glaze.