Masterpieces of Art Pottery: 1880–1930 Maritime Hundreds of photos

Hundreds of photos

Community memories and monumental events

Photos from late 1800s through today

ISBN: 9781597252249

Masterpieces of Art Pottery: 1880–1930 Maritime Hundreds of photosThe Newark Museum began exhibiting art pottery in 1910, just one year after it was founded. A century later, the Museum boasts one of the most historically important and well documented art pottery collections in the nation. John Cotton Dana, founding director of the Museum, saw pottery as the ideal way to involve the average museum visitor with art. A vase was functional, but it could also be set on a shelf and appreciated for both its beauty and its