Mid-Century studio pottery vase by well-known Hawaiian ceramist, Harue Oyama McVay (born 1928).

Stoneware with matte glaze surfaces. Signed on the bottom, inscribed into the clay: HARU McVAY / HAWAII

Hand-thrown and decorated with abstracted painted, glazed designs of trees and leaves in brown, with inscribed details, on a matte green ground.

HEIGHT - 9 1/4"

DIAMETER - 5 1/2"

PROVENANCE: New York collection.

NOTES / REFERENCES: Harue Oyama McVay . Born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1928. While growing up, she had the opportunity to watch the landscape painter D. Howard Hitchcock (1861 - 1943), who rented his studio from the Oyama family. As an undergraduate at the University of Hawaii, she enrolled in a ceramics class taught by Claude Horan. She graduated from the University in 1950 and earned an Masters from Ohio State University in 1951. She taught at the University of Hawaii from 1951 - 1993, when she retired as a professor emeritus. McVay is best known for starting with wheel thrown clay and then manipulating it, often into organic forms.

Harue exhibited at the Syracuse Ceramic Nationals from 1949-1952, 1956-1960 and 1962. The Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Museum of Arts and Design (New York City), and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are among the public collections holding work by Harue Oyama McVay.

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Excellent condition with no damage or restoration.