This month's article was originally published in the Wharton Esherick Museum Quarterly from Spring 1993.  Wharton Esherick and Henry Varnum

Octagonal School, 1928, Woodcut, Wharton Esherick. The Diamond Rock Schoolhouse is a treasured Chester County landmark, enjoyed by

  “The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves, The American contempt for statues and ceremonies,      the

This conversation has been reprinted with permission from “The New American Craftsman: First Generation ” by Wharton Esherick, Donald McKinley

  "Mary Esherick Plate" Henry Varnum Poor, Ceramic, 1926. Guests to Wharton Esherick’s Studio see his daughter Mary’s

  One of several sketches of musicians in Mexico, Wharton Esherick, 1947. Wharton's sketch of a fiesta