American Art Pottery The Robert A Ellison Jr Collection

This fascinating history is exemplified by the outstanding works in the collection of robert a.

American art pottery the robert a ellison jr collection.

Ellison s european art pottery collection at the metropolitan museum of art. Frelinghuysen alice cooney eidelberg martin spinozzi adrienne. Her most recent publication is american art pottery. 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.

In a series of fascinating chapters the authors place these works in the context of turn of the century commerce design and social history. 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. At his home in greenwich village with some of the pottery by american masters that he is donating. Between the 1870s and the 1950s american ceramics were transformed from industrially produced ornamental works to handcrafted art pottery.

Celebrating the recent acquisition of ellison s european art pottery collection the met has launched a second major retrospective making pottery art. Ellison jr collection of french ceramics stylishly displayed in the main floor s wrightsman exhibition gallery the exhibition is on view through august 18. Experts familiar with the collection say it is worth 15 million to 20 million. 1880 1910 celebrates the recent acquisition of mr.

Major gift of art pottery to adorn met s restyled american wing the collector robert a. 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. Ellison jr who over half a century assembled one of the most important and comprehensive selections of american art pottery. Collection with alice cooney frelinghuysen and martin eidelberg 2018.

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