Please note that only a small fraction of the collection is on view at a given time, and the galleries are rotated often.
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Search the full collection to discover even more. The culmination was the 2013 bequest of the couple’s personal collection of their work, including wood sculptures, digital prints, sand paintings, weavings, and hundreds of ceramics. Over the course of decades, the Currier Museum has amassed the most complete collection of work by first-generation studio potters Mary and Edwin Scheier. The glass collection also includes work by New England makers (including Boston and Sandwich, Mount Washington, and New England Glass) and turn-of-the-century American art glass (by Tiffany, Quezal, Steuben, and others). The Currier Museum is also known for its extensive collection glass paperweights, which is of exceptional quality and represents the major 19th- and 20th-century American and French makers.
The furniture of historic Europe represented by a rare table designed by Piranesi and a French 18th-century wall clock of exceptional quality. The collection also features several examples of contemporary American studio furniture by artists such as Jon Brooks, Jere Osgood, Terry Moore, David Lamb, Sam Maloof, Vivian Beer, and Judy McKie. The museum’s collection of historic furniture from New England includes exceptional pieces by Junkins and Senter and Samuel Dunlap. Historic pieces in the collection include an 18th-century painted terracotta sculpture of a twisting Baccante figure and a very rare yellow marble crucifixion sculpture by Giovanni Battista Foggini, which is the earliest decorative arts object in the collection. The museum’s non-functional ceramic objects include abstract sculptural pieces by Peter Voulkos, Robert Turner, and Toshiko Takaezu, as well as representational work by Michael Lucero and Marilyn Levine. The ceramic collection includes work by first generation studio potters Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada, Lucie Rie, and Hans Coper. The Currier Museum’s ceramic and decorative arts illustrate a plurality of artistic styles and movements from Europe and the United States, with special strengths in ceramics, furniture, and glass.
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