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These Beaumont Mood planters were retrieved from a city storage unit and taken to the Denton Public Library's Special Collections department to be cleaned.

Red clay planter with bands of dark matte brown and glazed blue and brown. The planter…

A row of cone-shaped pendant lamps inside City Hall. All have bisque-fired to Cone 04 and have a band of dark brown matte finish at the top which matches the hardware.

These unique lamps were designed by Martha Mood and fabricated by Beaumont…

This style of pottery light had originally hung from the pergola, however, because so many pottery lights around the perimeter were damaged it was removed to replace one of the missing ones.

A cylinder made from white clay, with four bands of…

Twenty-four pendant lamps hang around the perimeter of the Denton Municipal Swimming Pool.

Each of these pottery lamps was fabricated by Beaumont Mood in the basement studio of the home he shared with his wife, Martha Mood, in San Antonio, Texas.…

Ten Beamont Mood ceramic lamps hang from a dropped ceiling. They are a salmon color with an elephant blue glaze, said to be a favorite color of O'Neil Fords.

The area was created during the 1968 expansion of the building.

The suspended ceiling…

Another pottery urn made by Beaumont Mood. This particular urn is located in the library director's office. It is also made from red clay and has a pinkish-hue and a rust-colored glaze; the shape is conical.

The condition: has several cracks…

Another pottery urn made by Beaumont Mood in an office of the Emily Fowler Library. There are other matching urns in a separate cabinet.

This salmon-colored vessel has colors in reddish, elephant blue, and brown with various Greek meander…

Two tall cylindrical vessels with geometric patterns in reddish, blue, and brown, made by Beaumont Mood. They reside in a cabinet at the Emily Fowler Central Library. The containers were commissioned by O'Neil Ford as part of the 1968 renovation of…

Ten flush-mounted terracotta light fixtures line the underside of the covered breezeway in front of the Emily Fowler Library.

The fixtures were made by Ceramic Design out of San Antonio for the library's 1981 expansion.

The prefabricated…

These ten wall sconces align the inner courtyard on the west side of City Hall.
They were designed and made by Beaumont Mood for O'Neil Ford in the late 1960s.

In February of 2024, all of the sconces were removed for cleaning.

Two globe-shaped pottery lamps hang from the front of the Denton City-County Library. One hung outside the covered pergola. The other was cream with a possible gray band near the bottom. Both have geometric patterns.

Both were by made by Beaumont…