American Art Pottery The Robert A Ellison Jr Collection

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.

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. In a series of fascinating chapters the authors place these works in the context of turn of the century commerce design and social history. Major gift of art pottery to adorn met s restyled american wing the collector robert a. Celebrating the recent acquisition of ellison s european art pottery collection the met has launched a second major retrospective making pottery art.

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. 1880 1910 celebrates the recent acquisition of mr. Between the 1870s and the 1950s american ceramics were transformed from industrially produced ornamental works to handcrafted art pottery. Experts familiar with the collection say it is worth 15 million to 20 million.

Ellison jr who over half a century assembled one of the most important and comprehensive selections of american art pottery. Ellison jr collection of french ceramics stylishly displayed in the main floor s wrightsman exhibition gallery the exhibition is on view through august 18. This fascinating history is exemplified by the outstanding works in the collection of robert a. Collection of french ceramics ca.

Flip to back flip to front. At the metropolitan museum of art. At his home in greenwich village with some of the pottery by american masters that he is donating. Collection with alice cooney frelinghuysen and martin eidelberg 2018.

Frelinghuysen alice cooney eidelberg martin spinozzi adrienne. Ellison s european art pottery collection at the metropolitan museum of art. 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.