When Schreckengost went to the Cleveland Museum of Art to be photographed prior to his 2000-2001 retrospective, the museum's New Yorker bowl was being unpacked for display. Schreckengost reached out to touch the bowl but his hand was stopped by a museum staff member who said, "You made the bowl, but you may not touch it." Schreckengost always said he designed those pieces to be beautiful and useful – not to be cloistered and inaccessible.
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To resolve this tension and increase accessibility, in 2005-2006 Schreckengost once again oversaw the production of the Jazz Series. He supervised much of the work himself, visiting the studio to fine-tune the process and critiquing the scratchwork of individual bowls to ensure they were faithful to his concepts.
Each object has been serial numbered and entered in the Schreckengost database for provenance tracking. These bowls and plates constitute the Centennial Edition Jazz Series – a celebration of Schreckengost's 100th birthday and the 75th anniversary of the first Jazz series.
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