Research Catalog

Title

Gifts from the fire : American ceramics, 1880-1950 : from the collection of Martin Eidelberg / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen and Martin Eidelberg.

Author

Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney

Publication

• New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Eidelberg, Martin P.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Description

255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm

Summary

"From the 1880s to the 1950s, pioneering American artists drew upon the rich traditions and recent innovations of European and Asian ceramics to develop new designs, decorations, and techniques. The extraordinary range and inventiveness of these American interpretations of international trends -- from the Arts and Crafts and Art Deco movements to the modernism of Matisse and the Wiener Werkstätte to abstracted, minimalist styles -- are exemplified in this book by more than 180 works from the outstanding collection of Martin Eidelberg. Splendid new photography and engaging essays by two of the foremost experts on American art pottery trace the period's decorative developments, from sculptural and painted ornament to adornment with deeply colored glazes and textures. Featured makers include the renowned Rookwood, Grueby, and Van Briggle Potteries, as well as leading artists such as Maija Grotell, George E. Ohr, Frederick Hurten Rhead, Louis C. Tiffany, Rockwell Kent, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, and Leza McVey. A vivid and accessible overview of American ceramics and ceramists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Gifts from the Fire reveals how artists working in the United States drew upon diverse, global influences to produce works of astonishing variety and ingenuity."--Book jacket.

Alternative Title

American ceramics, 1880-1950 : from the collection of Martin Eidelberg

Subject

• Eidelberg, Martin P. > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) > Exhibitions
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
• 1800-1999
• Art pottery, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Art pottery, American > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Modernism (Art) > United States > Exhibitions
• Art pottery, American
• Art > Private collections
• Modernism (Art)
• United States

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "This catalogue is published in conjunction with Gifts from the Fire: American Ceramics from the Collection of Martin Eidelberg, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 21, 2021, through October 16, 2022." -- Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-250) and index

Contents

A scholar's collection : a conversation between Martin Eidelberg and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen -- Ceramics at the dawn on a new century -- Art pottery between the wars -- Modern American dinnerware.

Call Number

NK4408

ISBN

• 1588397327
• 9781588397324

OCLC

• 1245472250
• on1245472250

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries