American Pottery Art

Online information about American Ceramic Tile Art from sources other than Resource Library

with an emphasis on representational art

 

American Art Pottery was a 2002 exhibit from Christian Brothers University - Art Gallery. [Link found to be expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO is saving the citation for use by researchers.]

American Art Pottery Association website includies recent texts from the Journal of the American Art Pottery Association. Accessed August, 2015.

Animal House: Works by Helen Gorsuch and George R. Wazenegger was a 2011 exhibit at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. Curator Sommer Toffle says: "This exhibition features a compilation of Raku-fired ceramic animals and mixed media wood collage houses and barns. Gorsuch and Wazenegger are the perfect twosome for bringing together hand-built ornate, expressive, human-like, playful animals surrounded by rich, colorful, textural houses, apartments, light houses and barns" Download the exbibit brochure at the exhibition catalogues page. Accessed 11/16

Ancient Forms, Modern Minds: Contemporary Cherokee Ceramics was a 2012 exhibit at the Asheville Art Museum, which says: "Celebrating both tradition and contemporary innovation in one of the oldest, ongoing ceramic traditions in the world, Ancient Forms, Modern Minds: Contemporary Cherokee Ceramics focuses on the works of 11 contemporary Cherokee potters." Accessed 11/16

At Home with Roseville Pottery was an exhibit held October 18, 2011 through October 07, 2012 at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. The museum says: "Roseville Pottery (1890-1954) produced ceramics out of Zanesville, Ohio, for more than sixty years, a testament to the company's ingenuity, creativity, and popular appeal. Most of the Smiths' collection dates from the 1920s to the 1940s, the patterns resonating with the soulful strength of an American public weathering tough economic times." Accessed July, 2014.

Bennett Bean: Be Careful What You Fall in Love With is a 2017 exhibit at the Academy Art Museum which says: "Bennett Bean (1941) is an American ceramic artist....Bean is a quintessential polymath best known as a ceramicist for his treatment of vessels post firing." Also see artist's website Accessed 11/17

Born of Fire: The Pottery of Margaret Tafoya AND Re: Generation: A Survey of Margaret Tafoya's Descendants is a 2012 exhibit at the Arizona State University Art Museum which says: "This unprecedented exhibition of pueblo pottery will provide collectors, students and the public a unique overview of one of the most accomplished potters of the 20th century as well as of her descendants. Margaret Tafoya (1904-2001), a matriarch of Santa Clara Pueblo potters, was a pioneering artist who sustained the ceramic tradition of her ancestors by transforming it from a process for making functional vessels into an art form. " Accessed 10/18  

By The Sea: Ceramics by Patricia Griffin is a 2017 exhibit at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art which says: " Patricia Griffin is an expressive ceramist whose unique work captures the natural beauty of the Central Coast.... She continues to perfect her individual style and sgraffito technique. Sgraffito (in Italian "to scratch") is produced by applying layers of color to pottery and then scratching off parts of the layers to create contrasting images, patterns, and texture to reveal the clay color underneath." To read more after exhibit closes, go to "Past Exhibitions" section of museum website. Also see artist's website  Accessed 6/17

The China Painting List is an encyclopedic website compiled by porcelain artist R. Janette Graham which contains links to websites concerning porcelain painting. The site contains a search capability by category and region. Selecting the category "China Painters" for the region "North America" yielded 332 matches as of 2/21/13. Accessed August, 2015.

Conversations Around the Table: An American Experience was an exhibit held March 6 - October 4, 2015 at Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Paul Kotula, Assistant Professor, MSU Department of Art, Art History, and Design and Guest Curator says: "Spanning from the early-twentieth century to the present, the tableware in this two-part exhibition - whether produced in an artist's studio or in a factory - form "conversations" around the currency of key issues in modern American culture. War, economic hardship, and social injustice often brought clarity to the vision of the artists represented here, even if their deliberate desire was to use their objects to celebrate hope, joy, and beauty under difficult circumstances." Accessed August, 2016.

Corinna Button: Interfaces is a 2017 exhibit at the Hyde Park Art Center which says: "Primarily focused on female portraiture, Button's treatment of the subject often incorporates multiple angles at once, suggesting an uncanny paradox of femininity. Her work portrays women not as exact likenesses but rather as archetypal figures whose personality is only partially exposed to the surface. Over the past four years, Corinna has built an impressive menagerie of iconic sphinxlike women sculptures in the Oakman Clinton School & Studio at the Art Center. The exhibition presents what happens behind the studio doors to the public and expands the discussion of Button's work to a larger audience."  Accessed 6/17

"Dalrymple's D & D Pottery," by James L. Murphy, Roseville Legend, Summer 2006, pp. 1, 6, from the Knowledge Bank, Ohio State University. Includes link to .pdf file. Accessed August, 2015.

"Did Roseville's National Pottery Make Art Ware? The Unanswered Question," by James L. Murphy, Roseville Legend, Fall 2001: 6-7, from the Knowledge Bank, Ohio State University. Includes link to .pdf file. Accessed August, 2015.

Discovering Saar Ceramics is a 2018 exhibit at the American Museum of Ceramic Art which says: "It is not often that a curator discovers an artist whose work hovered below the horizon and remained invisible to art history for more than fifty years. But such is the discovery of Richard Saar and Saar Ceramics. Today the Saar name is synonymous with twentieth and twenty-first century art, given the notoriety of African-American artist Betye Saar, Richard's wife from 1952 - 1970, and daughters Lezley and Alison Saar, renowned sculptors. Richard's artistic talent was equally masterful but his career and creativity are unsung and under recognized."  Also see artist's website and image sheet for exhibit. Accessed 5/18

Elif Uras: Nicaea was a 2015 exhibit at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Amy Smith-Stewart, curator, says: "Uras's sculptures are made onsite in Iznik, Turkey (originally Nicaea, named after a nymph in Greek mythology), a town celebrated for its tile and ceramic production during the Ottoman Empire. Uras's imagery merges traditional nonfigurative Turkish art with the Western figurative tradition, while also exploring the representation of the female body across cultures." Also see the exhibit brochure in Issuu. Accessed 11/16

Eva Zeisel: The Shape of Life was a 2005-07 exhibit at the Erie Art Museum, followed up by a book on the exhibit. Accessed 11/16

Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina was a 2013 exhibit at the Georgia Museum of Art, which says: "This exhibition... celebrates the formative African American vessels and their aesthetic power, while discussing their cultural meanings within a community of Americans that lived under challenging circumstances. Faces that have long stood silent here regain a voice. "Accessed 3/14

Fire and Earth: Native American Pottery from New Mexican Pueblos was a 2013 exhibit at the Bellarmine Museum of Art which says in its press release: "A wide range of styles and forms of traditional and contemporary pottery are on view and include works by noted 20th-century artisans such as Maria and Julian Martinez, Helen Naha, and Robert Tenoria. Historical works from the late 19th and early 20th century are also featured."  Readers may download the Exhibition Catalogue with entries by Jill J. Deupi and Maria Dembrowsky Nigro. Accessed 1/17

"Ford Ceramic Arts Columbus, Ohio," by James L. Murphy, The Journal of the American Art Pottery Association 14, no. 2 (1998): 12-14, from the Knowledge Bank, Ohio State University. Includes link to .pdf file. Accessed August, 2015.

Frankoma Pottery Exhibition, an exhibit held April 20 - October 7, 2012 at the Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art. Includes news release. From Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art. Accessed 11/20/14

Historic U.S. Tile Installation Database for both existing and demolished U.S. tile and terra cotta installations from the 1870s through the 1950, organized alphabetically by state. Accessed August, 2015.

Juliellen Byrne: Cradle, Casket, Boat, an exhibit held May 21 - July 24, 2011 at the Canton Museum of Art. Includes artist statement. Accessed June, 2014

Kukuli Velarde: Plunder Me, Baby is a 2017 exhibit at the American Museum of Ceramic Art which says: "The Plunder Me, Baby ceramic sculptures evoke a childhood memory that has haunted Velarde, of hearing her 16-year-old nanny declare "I don't speak Quechua" (the language of the Inca) in an attempt to hide her indigenous roots." Also see artist's website  Accessed 11/17

 Living with Clay: The Julie and David Armstrong Collection is a 2019 exhibit at the Claremont Museum of Art which says: "Staged to simulate the manner in which Julie and David Armstrong display their collection in their home, alongside paintings and furnishings, the exhibition reveals the integration of art in their daily lives while also saluting the collectors' taste, ideas, and the uniqueness of their vision." Accessed 4/19

Malibu Potteries from Adamson House. Accessed August, 2015.

J. Mark Sublette of Medicine Man Gallery, Inc. has secured permission to reprint online numerous articles concerning Western and Native American art from publishers of several paper-printed magazines. Included are articles on Native American pottery. Accessed August, 2015.

Melissa McGill: Slipside is a 2017 exhibit at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center which says: "The creation of Slipside pushed the technical limits of scale for slip-cast ceramics. When McGill's Arts/Industry residency in the Kohler Co. factory began, there was some doubt that these large figures could be made as originally designed, but she was persistent in her efforts to create the forms in one piece. With technical advice from factory artisans, she made molds and repeatedly slip-cast them until she had completed a series of clay figures standing nearly five feet tall." Accessed 1/18

In October 2012 The Metropolitan Museum of Art launched MetPublications, an online resource that offers in-depth access to the Museum's print and online publications, covering art, art history, archaeology, conservation, and collecting. Titles relating to American representational art available for free viewing via.pdf download or online reading as of 2013 include: American Porcelain, 1770-1920; Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney (1989). Accessed August, 2015.

Newcomb Pottery and Arts & Crafts and Shearwater Pottery, Ocean Springs, Mississippi from Jean Bragg Gallery of Southern Art. Accessed August, 2015

Newcomb Pottery Through the Years is a 2019 exhibit at the Newcomb Art Museum which says: "Spanning more than 50 years, the display, Newcomb Pottery Through the Years, centers on the historical timeline of the Pottery and the shifting style through the decades and features over 70 rarely-displayed treasures from the permanent collection including Newcomb Pottery, textiles, jewelry, metal objects, bookbinding, and more." Accessed 3/20.

North Carolina Pottery, an exhibit held 27 January 2012 - 4 March 2012 at the Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Accessed 4/14

Nude Vases, Cubist Faces: Modernism at Rookwood Pottery is a 2014-15 exhibit at the Dubuque Museum of Art which says: "The exhibition Nude Vases, Cubist Faces: Modernism at Rookwood Pottery from the collection of Riley Humler and Annie Bauer will showcases select works from the Rookwood Pottery Company from 1929, the year that Jens Jacob Herring Krog Jensen joined Rookwood until 1948 when he and his wife Elizabeth Barrett, also a Rookwood decorator, left the company to become independent artists." Accessed 3/17

Potteries of California includes biographies of potters and other historic information. Accessed August, 2015.

"Pottery" is an online artcle about the history of art pottery in Collectors Weekly. Accessed August, 2015.

Pueblo Dynasties: Master Potters from Matriarchs to Contemporaries is a 2019 exhibit at the Crocker Art Museum which says: "Featuring more than 200 pieces by premier potters, this exhibition focuses on legendary matriarchs such as Nampeyo, Maria Martinez, and Margaret Tafoya, as well as many of their adventuresome descendants, whose art has become increasingly elaborate, detailed, personal, and political over time."  Also see 10/24/19 Incollect article by Scott Shields. Accessed 5/20 

Robert Briscoe / Walter Gropius Master Artist Series is a 2013 exhibit at the Huntington Museum of Art which says: "For more than 40 years, Robert Briscoe's functional pottery has explored the powerful link between maker and user by emphasizing the integral role that handmade ceramic objects play in savoring some of life's richest experiences." Accessed 3/17

"Rosemeade" by Linda & Bill Bakken, from an article that appeared in WPA Press, Vol. 16, Spring 2003. Accessed November, 2015.

San Ildefonso Pottery: 1600 - 1930 is a 2019 exhibit at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture which says: "San Ildefonso pottery is about a little known art, an American art form that deserves recognition and appreciation alongside the other great world art systems. Before there was Santa Fe and before the idea of "art colony" was born there was San Ildefonso, a small village of extraordinarily visionary artists whose ceramic legacy is rich and vitally meaningful."  Accessed 3/20

Sculpting Nature -The Favrile Pottery of L.C. Tiffany, an exhibit held February 03, 2004 through January 09, 2005 at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. Includes Gallery Guide (PDF), Object Guide (PDF). Accessed July, 2014

Southern Migration: Ruby's @ AMOCA is a 2013 exhibit at the American Museum of Ceramic Art which says: "Ruby's Clay Studio & Gallery is a dynamic community of 100 resident artists who create a broad array of functional tableware, decorative vessels, sculpture, wall and garden art using both traditional and innovative techniques in wheel-throwing and hand-building methods. In a supportive and collegial atmosphere, Ruby's nurtures people new to ceramics, hobbyists, budding professionals, production potters and nationally recognized artists. People come from all over the Bay Area to learn and work." Accessed 10/18

Susan Folwell: Through the Looking Glass is a 2019 exhibit at the Harwood Museum, University of New Mexico which says: "In Through the Looking Glass, Folwell offers audiences an opportunity to consider how narrative sequences painted on Pueblo pottery reflect a new vision of Taos Society of Artists' portraits in a 21st century context. In turn, she calls attention to the ways that Couse, Dunton, and their fellow painters humanized Native American peoples in their portraits, during a time when Indians were mythologized and regarded as dispensable."  Also see 1/1/70 article in Southwest Art Accessed 1/20

Through the Eyes of the Pot, a website devoted to southwewst pueblo pottery and culture from Holmes Museum of Anthropology. Accessed August, 2015.

Tradition in Clay: Two Centuries of Classic North Carolina Pots, an exhibit held 26 December 2010 - 20 March 2011 at the Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Accessed 4/14

Waylande Gregory: Art Deco Ceramics and the Atomic Impulse, an exhibit held May 1 - July 20, 2014 at the Canton Museum of Art . CMA says: "Waylande Gregory (1905-1971) was one of the leading figures in twentieth-century American ceramics, helping to shape Art Deco design. This exhibition is the first retrospective on the artist, highlighting more than sixty works, including paintings, glass and ceramics, most notably four Electrons from his major commission for the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, Fountain of the Atom. ... Waylande Gregory was the first modern ceramist to create large-scale ceramic sculptures. Similar to the technique developed by the ancient Etruscans, he fired his monumental sculptures only once. To create these works of ceramic virtuosity, the artist developed a "honeycomb" technique, in which an infrastructure of compartments was covered by a ceramic "skin." Some of these figurative sculptures weighed well over one ton, and they were fired in a kiln constructed by Gregory at his home studio in Warren, New Jersey." Accessed February, 2016

Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise, an exhibit held May 17, 2014 - August 31, 2014 at the Georgia Museum of Art. Includes news releases. Accessed 12/14.

"Zanesville Stoneware Company Closes After 115 Years," by James L. Murphy, Journal of the American Art Pottery Association 18, no. 6 (2002): 12-16. Includes link to .pdf file. Accessed August, 2015.

Arizona Public Media offers a May 27, 2008 video (05:04) on The Pottery Project Explore the art of the potter and the science of the archaeologist as Arizona State Museum celebrates 2,000 years of Native pottery-making traditions in the Southwest. At over 20,000 whole vessels, ASM's collection of Southwest Indian pottery is the world's largest and most comprehensive. Eight years in the making, The Pottery Project features the Arnold and Doris Roland Wall of Pots, the Agnese and Emil Haury Southwest Native Nations Pottery Vault, a state-of-the-art conservation laboratory, and a brand new interpretive gallery. The exhibition, in the new gallery, includes a fully interactive, multi-media Virtual Vault; video interviews with archaeologists and Native potters, and hands-on experiences. Accessed May, 2015.

Maria Martinez: Notable New Mexican [5:08] Originally broadcast on New Mexico PBS station KNME.Accessed August, 2015.

Dr. Mark Sublette, owner of Medicine Man Gallery in Tucson and Santa Fe, has created a YouTube channel of online videos on topics relating to Native American baskets, weavings, pottery and carvings. As of 2015, titles included for pottery:

 

(above: Florence Browning, Double Handed Awanyu Bowl. Photo: National Park Service)

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