Word: schreckengost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Common denominator of U. S. ceramists is whimsy. Sculpture at the show ranged from Viktor Schreckengost's Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, three haloed Negroes smiling down at the flames, to Sascha Brastoff's boneless, bulbous, button-mouthed females, Emergence and Timid Maiden (see cut), who look like a pair of praying mantises. Ceramist Brastoff's figures, tastefully mounted on bases of grey velvet and satin, won a sculpture prize. Fit for the flossiest mantelpiece were such lively pieces as Annie Laurie Crawford's Dancers Martinique, Carl Walters' blue Hippopotamus...
Twenty years ago such an anomaly was born on a scrabbly farm near Pittsburgh to a poor Pennsylvania Dutch family named Schreckengost. The Schreckengosts named the child Clara and brought her up as a girl. After Clara was 10, she ceased to grow. Her features acquired a slanting cast and she gave no physiological evidence of oncoming womanhood...
Nobody seemed more pleased at this strange outcome than Father Schreckengost. Said he: "Many a night I couldn't sleep thinking about that poor child crying because of the shape she was in. I tell you, it's a pitiful thing. She's never had any pleasure out of life...
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