Helen Bates on tue 17 jul 01
This afternoon...
I started on a search for pottery to see in Chattanooga Tennessee, but
before I could "arrive" there, I was diverted to the State of Florida,
then on to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi...
The story of Old Florida Pottery
http://aarf.com/feflpt00.htm
Article by Alfred R. Frankel, M.D., a collector of old Florida pottery
from 1859 to about 1960. The page is a link from his book sales site
http://www.oldfloridapottery.com/
There are photos of some pieces, and a picture of potter Henry Graack,
Jr. (circa 1935-1966), Silver Springs, Ocala, Florida, at his wheel.
Favourably reviewed on the American Art Pottery site:
http://www.amartpot.org/
by Bob Sindelar at:
http://www.amartpot.org/book_reviews.htm#Anchor_frankel
Members of AARP visited potter James Anderson of Ocean Springs,
Mississippi and you can see photos (not very large, unfortunately) of
him at work in his studio, Shearwater Pottery:
http://www.amartpot.org/convention/Potter%20Anderson.htm
His showroom and decorating studio (employs two decorators) are here:
http://www.amartpot.org/convention/2001Shearwater.htm
It's evident James produces both work off the wheel and poured mould
pieces.
The main page of the AARP site (see above) also has links to James
Anderson's uncle, Walter Anderson
http://www.amartpot.org/WAndersonMuseum.htm
Walter Anderson who made art in many media, including pottery:
http://www.amartpot.org/convention/2001AndersonPottery.htm
Again, it would be wonderful to have larger photos, but, they are good
enough to see some of the amazing detail of W. Anderson's work.
Actually, if you "right click" on the individual images and then "left
click" on "View Images", the result is a somewhat larger and therefore
clearer image on your screen. Click afterwards on your "Back" button
to return to the previous page.
The Walter Anderson Museum has its own web site:
http://www.walterandersonmuseum.org/
Quite a delightful site with lots of "clickable" smaller pictures of
Walter's and his contempories' works. (Most of these are 2-D.)
It is interesting that Walter and his 2 brothers all worked in the
ceramic field. Brother Peter started the Shearwater pottery.
PS: I finally got to Chattanooga, TN, and found:
http://www.molehillpottery.com/
Kathy Owens is the potter here, and she has a gallery featuring good
pottery from other studios in the U.S. and work in other media as
well.
The gallery is on Signal Mountain, approximately 5 miles from downtown
Chattanooga.
Helen
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