American Art Pottery The Robert A Ellison Jr Collection

This volume chronicles the history of american art pottery through more than 300 works in the outstanding collection of robert a.

American art pottery the robert a ellison jr collection.

This fascinating history is exemplified by the outstanding works in the collection of robert a. Spanning the period from the 1870s to the 1950s this volume chronicles the history of american art pottery through more than three hundred works in the outstanding collection of robert a. In a series of fascinating chapters the authors place these works in the context of turn of the century commerce design and social history. Ellison jr who over half a century assembled one of the most important and comprehensive selections of american art pottery.

Experts familiar with the collection say it is worth 15 million to 20 million. Her most recent publication is american art pottery. At the metropolitan museum of art. At his home in greenwich village with some of the pottery by american masters that he is donating.

The majority of the 40 works on display are examples of french pottery and porcelain and they are shown with comparative examples drawn from the museum s holdings of asian art european sculpture and decorative arts greek and roman art and european paintings to illustrate. After decades as an expert in the field author of several books on the american art pottery movement and in particular the pioneering potter george ohr ellison donated the bulk of his american ceramics collection to the metropolitan museum of art in 2009 securing his legacy in the field of decorative arts and creating one of the great repositories of art pottery in the world. Other recent projects include co curating early newcomb pottery from the barbara and henry fuldner collection at the stickley museum at craftsman farms in parsippany troy hills nj 2016 and contributing to carl walters and woodstock ceramic arts at the samuel dorsky museum of art suny new paltz ny 2017. Frelinghuysen alice cooney eidelberg martin spinozzi adrienne.

Dating from 1876 through 1956 the works include examples by the greatest late 19th and early 20th century american potters from ohr to grueby to masters of the newcomb and rookwood pottery studios. Celebrating the recent acquisition of ellison s european art pottery collection the met has launched a second major retrospective making pottery art. Ellison s european art pottery collection at the metropolitan museum of art. Collection of french ceramics ca.

Major gift of art pottery to adorn met s restyled american wing the collector robert a. Between the 1870s and the 1950s american ceramics were transformed from industrially produced ornamental works to handcrafted art pottery. Collection with alice cooney frelinghuysen and martin eidelberg 2018.