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Plate, Brown fleck pattern introduced in 1952 Mary Alice (Hale) Hadley was born May 15, 1911 in Terre Haute, Indiana to Frank R. and Hattie Alice Hale. In 1930 she married George Hadley. After graduation in 1933 from Indiana's Depauw College, Mary attended Indiana University at Terre Haute. The couple moved to New York City where Hadley took art classes at Columbia University while her husband worked on his degree. The couple eventually made their home in Louisville where Mary continued her artistic pursuits of sculpting and painting. In 1939, to furnish the couple's newly acquired boat, she designed her own set of dinnerware. Once her friends saw the pieces and requested ones like them, Mary began to design pottery as a business and Hadley Pottery was born. Within a decade, the firm had on staff 12 freehand decorators producing 200 unique pieces daily. In 1952 Hadley's "Hot Brown Fleck" pottery won a good design award from the Museum of Modern Art. The pottery was exhibited in New York and at the Good Design Institute's show at Chicago's Merchandise Mart. Though Mary Alice Hadley died December 26, 1965, Hadley Pottery continues to operate today. |
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