(above) View of  Greenwich House Pottery entrance, 1944, photographer is Risdon Tillery (courtesy of Library of Congress)

Before Janeway had a proper studio on 67 West 3rd Street in mid-1943, she relied on others’ kilns to fire her tiles, including those of Greenwich House Pottery then under the direction of  Gertrude Rieschke.

William Soini, pottery instructor there when she started, may have instructed her in wheel-thrown wares. Pat Clark (Stetson) helped her while GHP director in 1945 and continued to work in Janeway’s studios, principally as an underglaze decorator.  Ceramicist Anne Wright (Meerkerk), friend and mentor of Janeway in this period, also fired wares there .

There is are two tiles in the Greenwich House Pottery study collection. One is non-figurative, has an experimental glaze and its authorship is unclear. The other tile is clearly by Janeway, signed, 6 inches square,  framed and  depicts a bird. These two tiles originate from Janeway’s Estate and were presented to GHP after Janeway’s death in 1989.

An archive of original materials from Greenwich House Pottery is available in the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University.