Russell Crook studio pottery stoneware vase with fish and seaweed around the spherical form. It measures 8 1/2 inches tall and 9 1/4 inches in diameter. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, firing flaws, or repairs, just the typical roughness to the surface. Unsigned. A good vase from a rare Arts & Crafts New England art pottery. Russell Crook worked by himself in Lincoln MA. He was an early member of the Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston and studied with Augustus Saint-Gaudens, John Henry Twachtman, and communicated with Charles Binns. He attended the Arts Students League in NY, and the Pennsylvania Institute of Art. Among his other accomplishments, he designed the famous pumpkin tiles for Grueby and created the fountain in Center Harbor NH.