Mark,
I would love to say that it is one of Maetzel's pieces. To be frank, even though she was one of Germany's well known potters, her pieces, to this day, don't command the prices of some of her contemporaries. I collect a lot of pottery, and, when I first got started, I fell in love with her lava pieces. At the time, I could easily collect her because she was and, still is, affordable in spite of her passing a few years ago. Your vase, in the first picture, resembled some of her work. Upon closer inspection, I can tell right away that it isn't her as the lip of the vase (and this is not a criticism because I adore you and think that you have a good eye) isn't refined enough. Also, the color of the bottom of the vase, even with the felt, isn't red enough for the clay in her region.
She was phase 2 of my collecting.
Phase 1 is my collection of Tapio Wirkkala/Rosenthal white porcelain ware of which I have about 40 pieces most of which are initialed with TW signifying the first year manufactured.
Currently, I am collecting studio pottery from Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Britain, Australia, Japan and the U.S. (vintage and current)
As such, I definitely feel as if ceramics are works of art.
Sherry Vilas Beatles painting
I'm writing about the Sherry Vilas Beatles painting you show here. Sherry Vilas (Siemanowski) was my mom, and she passed away in 1999. I'd love to know how your brother knew her (maybe at the Art Institute in Chicago) and your Mom found the painting.
I'm looking for the whereabouts of my Mom's works. I have several of them but am interested to know who else owns them or has them in their collections.
I'd be interested in hearing from you or from anyone who has or knows someone who has one of her works. Thanks very much.
Nice work Adam
It is too far away to tell, but is that in the same manner of "cut out" lines as in your other work? Or is this just direct mark making? I will email you soon, I promise!
Phonegirl, I have a "frog-chip" cookie by David Gilhooly that I bought back in nineteen seventy- something at a solo show he had at the Hansen Fuller Gallery in San Francisco.
He had a whole big plate of them on a table and they were going for five bucks apiece! So even though I was a starving artist at the time, I could afford one. I gave it to my sister for Christmas that year. I should see if they still have it. Lots of little green frog face chips imbedded in a large clay cookie.
The west coast has a long tradition of "funk" clay sculpture. I guess Robert Arneson is probably the best known of the humor and funk crowd, and Gilhooly is a generation younger than him. I think. He might have even been a student of Arneson's at University of California at Davis, because he was in the same gallery as Arneson back then. (I showed there a few years later too!)
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