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Rookwood and the American Indian

by Anita J. Ellis

Rookwood and the American Indian, by art historian Anita J. Ellis, concentrates on Rookwood’s fascination with the American Indian and the economic ...

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The book of Rookwood Pottery

by Herbert Peck

Since that time, considerably more than a million pieces of Rookwood art pottery have been produced. Nobody knows the precise number, and the figure ...

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Rookwood pottery

by Anita J. Ellis

Rookwood had been a singular presence in American art pottery at the 1889 Paris exposition, but in 1900 the company had to share the spotlight with other ...

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Art pottery of the United States

by Paul Evans

Also to be taken into consideration is the fact that for a time several producers of art pottery, such as Rookwood* and the Chelsea Keramic Art Works*, ...

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Warman's antiques and collectibles price guide

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American art pottery

by Lucile Henzke

As a lad of seventeen, he became quite interested in art pottery and, ... His tenure with the Avon Pottery was short and he joined Rookwood a year later ...

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Ten thousand years of pottery

by Emmanuel Cooper

Both women were later to be recognized as pioneers of American art pottery. MARIA LONGWORTH NICHOLS AND THE ROOKWOOD POTTERY Maria Longworth Nichols ...

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The Arts & Crafts Collector's Guide

by David Rago

Rookwood was one of America's most consistently qualitative producers and, ... their best Art Nouveau examples in visual strength or mastery of technique. ...

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Encyclopedia of antiques

by Rosemary Klein

Until approximately 1910, Rookwood art pottery was almost entirely confined to pieces individually decorated by the artists, who customarily signed their ...

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American art pottery

by Cooper-Hewitt Museum

Schott recalled all the Rookwood pottery consigned to the firm's retailers, as well as the huge collection in the custody of the Cincinnati Art Museum, ...

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Cincinnati

by Federal Writers' Project

Proceed north from the powerhouse on Rookwood PL ROOKWOOD POTTERY ... beginning with the trade name of the world-famous art pottery and ending with its ...

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Twenty-first-century perspectives on nineteenth-century art

by Gabriel P. Weisberg

"Beware Possible Intrigues Against Gold Award": Rookwood Pottery at the 1889 ... medal at the 1889 Paris Exposition, it was a coup d'etat for American art ...

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The American Midwest

by Richard Sisson

Janette M. Knowles Ohio Dominican University Rookwood Pottery Rookwood Pottery was very important in the development of the American art pottery movement ...

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Art pottery of the Midwest

by Marion J. Nelson

... product of most art potteries until about 1910 and of Weller and Rookwood until ... Although all the art ware of the Grueby Pottery was thrown and had ...

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Rookwood; its golden era of art pottery, 1880-1929

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The arts & crafts metalwork of Janet Payne Bowles

by Barry Shifman

Other faculty, some of whom were also art teachers at Shortridge High School, taught ceramic decoration, pottery, and industrial art and metalwork. ...

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The mad potter of Biloxi

by Garth Clark

Rookwood Pottery became the most famous of the early art pottery firms, and its operation exemplified this kind of division of labor between the artist who ...

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A history of American art

by Daniel Marcus Mendelowitz

The most consistent manufacturers of fine art pottery in the early twentieth century were the Rookwood potters of Cincinnati, Ohio. Rookwood pottery was ...

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Ceramics of the world

by Lorenzo Camusso

The production of what was to become the prototype of American art pottery began at Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880. ...

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In pursuit of beauty

by Doreen Bolger

In October 1881 Nichols started a practical-art school, the Rookwood School for Pottery Decoration, with Laura Fry and Clara Chipman Newton (1848-1936) as ...

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