Edris Eckhardt papers
name: label: Creator
content: Eckhardt, Edris, 1905-1998
topic: label: Occupation
content: Glass artists -- Ohio -- Cleveland
label: Occupation
content: Ceramicists -- Ohio -- Cleveland
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- Ohio -- Cleveland
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Ohio -- Cleveland
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women ceramicists
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
label: Topic
content: Scrapbooks
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by Edris Eckhardt in 1983.
creator: label: Creator
content: Eckhardt, Edris, 1905-1998
setName: label: See more items in
content: Edris Eckhardt papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of ceramicist, glass artist, and educator Edris Eckhardt measure 0.01 linear feet and date from circa 1940s-1982. The collection provides scattered documentation of Eckhardt's career through one letter, an award nomination, a photograph of artwork, a list of artworks probably from an exhibition catalog, and printed material.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Cleveland, Ohio ceramicist, glass artist, and educator Edris Eckhardt (1905-1998) was known for her work for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project (WPA FAP), and her pioneering role in the field of glass sculpture.

Eckhardt served as director of the FAP's Cleveland Ceramics and Sculpture Division from 1935 until 1942, where her work included a series of ceramic sculptures illustrating children's literature for public libraries. In the late 1940s she began to explore glass making and was credited with rediscovering the ancient Egyptian art of fusing gold leaf between sheets of glass to produce gold glass. Eckhardt received two John Simon Guggenheim Awards for Fine Arts (1956, 1959), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship in 1956, and a 1971 Cleveland Arts Prize Special Citation for Distinguished Service to the Arts, which highlighted her glass sculpture work.

Eckhardt also taught at colleges and universities throughout her career and was a regular contributor to Ceramics Monthly from 1954 on.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.01 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1940s-1982
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.eckhedri
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was microfilmed on Reel 2803 after receipt. The collection was processed and a finding aid prepared by Stephanie Ashley in 2023 and was digitized in 2023 with funding provided by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and The Walton Family Foundation.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The collection was digitized in 2023 and is available on the Archives of American Art website.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of ceramicist, glass artist, and educator Edris Eckhardt measure 0.01 linear feet and date from circa 1940s-1982. The collection provides scattered documentation of Eckhardt's career through one letter, an award nomination, a photograph of artwork, a list of artworks probably from an exhibition catalog, and printed material.
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of scrapbooks lent for microfilming  by Edris Eckhardt in 1983. The scrapbooks were microfilmed on Reel 684 before being returned to the donor and are not described in the collection container inventory.