[2] In 1932, she married the sculptor William Mozart McVey, and from 1935 to 1947,[3] she worked as a ceramist in Houston, Austin, and San Antonio.

[3] In 1953, McVey returned to her native city of Cleveland and established her studio in the suburb of Pepper Pike, Ohio.

[2] McVey's large-scaled, biomorphic, asymmetrical work is said to reflect her dissatisfaction with wheel-thrown pieces and to have led the way for modern ceramic art in the United States.

[3] In 1965, the Cleveland Institute of Art presented a major retrospective of her work that included seventy-five large scale sculptures or what she called "ceramic forms.

[8] In 2002 the art historian Martin Eidelberg wrote a book entitled The ceramic forms of Leza McVey[9] which helped bring her work back into the public eye.