American Art Pottery The Robert A Ellison Jr Collection

Major gift of art pottery to adorn met s restyled american wing the collector robert a.

American art pottery the robert a ellison jr collection.

Ellison jr collection of french ceramics stylishly displayed in the main floor s wrightsman exhibition gallery the exhibition is on view through august 18. Her most recent publication is american art pottery. In a series of fascinating chapters the authors place these works in the context of turn of the century commerce design and social history. Flip to back flip to front.

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. Ellison jr who over half a century assembled one of the most important and comprehensive selections of american art pottery. This fascinating history is exemplified by the outstanding works in the collection of robert a. At his home in greenwich village with some of the pottery by american masters that he is donating.

At the metropolitan museum of art. Collection with alice cooney frelinghuysen and martin eidelberg 2018. 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.

Frelinghuysen alice cooney eidelberg martin spinozzi adrienne. 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. 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.

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. 1880 1910 celebrates the recent acquisition of mr. Experts familiar with the collection say it is worth 15 million to 20 million.