By Bill Stern, Photographs by Peter Brenner.
This unprecedented exhibition is drawn from forty-seven California collections and documents a significant aspect of the Golden State’s contribution to American design. Its displays of aesthetically and historically significant tableware, gardenware, and tiles were produced by forty-four of the more than 600 commercial potteries that flourished here between 1900 and 1955. They range from color-splashed interpretations of traditional forms to radical innovations that changed the way we have lived for almost a century.
Published in 2001
Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco
119 pp.
Available for purchase at the Autry Museum Store, Click here to purchase on-line.
More Resources Below!
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Books For Children
Andrews-Goebel, Nancy. The Pot That Juan Built. Lee & Low Books, New York, 2002. |
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Baylor, Byrd. When Clay Sings.
Aladdin Library, New York, 1987. |
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Dewey, Jennifer. Mud Matters.
Marshall Cavendish, Tarrytown, NY, 1998. |
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Florian, Douglas. A Potter.
Greenwillow Books, New York, 1991. |
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Gibbons, Gail. The Pottery Place.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, CA, 1987. |
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Nierman, Kevin, Elaine Arima and Curtis H. Arima. The Kids 'n' Clay Ceramics Book.
Tricycle Press, Berkeley, CA, 2000. |
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Books For Adults
Selected titles available in the Museum Store. Barron, Stephanie, Sheri Bernstein, and Ilene Susan Fort. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. University of California Press, Los Angeles, 2000. |
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Chipman, Jack. Barbara Willis: Classic California Modernism.
JaBa Books, Venice, CA 2003. |
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Coates, Carole. Catalina Island Pottery and Tile: Island Treasures, 1927-1937. Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA, 2001. |
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Elliot-Bishop, James F. Franciscan, Catalina, and Other Gladding, McBean Wares: Ceramic Table and Art Wares, 1873-1942.
Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA, 2001. |
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Gibbs Jr., Carl. Collector's Encyclopedia of Metlox Potteries: Identifications and Values.
Second Ed. Collector Books, Paducah, KY, 2001. |
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Goldstone, Bud, and Arloa Paquin Goldstone. The Los Angeles Watts Towers.
The J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2002. |
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Kurutz, Gary F. Architectural Terra Cotta of Gladding, McBean.
Wingate Press, Sausalito, CA 1989. |
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Pedersen, Jeannine L. and Stacey A. Otte. The Art of Catalina Clay Products.
Catalina Island Museum Society, Inc., Avalon, CA 2000. |
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Pratt, Michael. Mid-Century Modern Dinnerware.
Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA, 2002. |
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Rosenthal, Lee. Catalina Tile of the Magic Isle.
Wingate Press, Sausalito, CA 1992. |
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Schneider, Mike. California Potteries: The Complete Book.
Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA, 1995. |
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Snyder, Jeffrey B. Beautiful Bauer: A Pictorial Study With Prices.
Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA, 1999. |
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Snyder, Jeffrey B. Pacific Pottery: Tableware From the 1920s, '30s, '40s...and More! Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA, 2000. |
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Stern, Bill. California Pottery: From Missions to Modernism.
Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2001. |
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Rindge, Ronald L. Ceramic Art of the Malibu Potteries 1926-1932.
First Edition, Second Printing, Malibu Lagoon Museum, Malibu, CA, 1994. |
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Rindge, Ronald L. et al. More about Malibu Potteries 1926-1932.
First Edition, Malibu Lagoon Museum, Malibu, CA, 1997. |
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Tuchman, Mitch. Bauer: Classic American Pottery.
Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1995. |
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Winter, Robert. Batchelder: Tilemaker.
Balcony Press, Glendale, CA, 1999. |
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Winter, Robert. Toward a Simpler Way of Life: The Arts and Crafts Architects of California.
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997. |
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Places for Collectors
Information is subject to change. Please call prior to visiting. Antiques & Objects 446 S. Fair Oaks Avenue Pasadena, CA 91105 626.796.8224 |
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Autry Museum Store
Autry Museum of Western Heritage 4700 Western Heritage Way Los Angeles, CA 90027-1462 323.667.2000 ext. 228 |
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Ten 10
1716 Silver Lake Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026 323.663.3603 |
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Dishes a la Carte
5650 W. 3rd St. Los Angeles, CA 90036 323.938.6223 |
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Mark Jager Antiques
1012-B Mission St. South Pasadena, CA 91030 626.799.2640 |
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Mission Tile West
853 Mission St. South Pasadena, CA 91030 626.799.4595 |
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Pottery Ranch
248 W. Huntington Dr. Monrovia, CA 91016 626.358.1215 |
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RTK Studios
206 Canada St. Ojai, CA 93023 805.640.9360 |
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Wells Antiques
2162 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026 213.413.0558 |
| Monterey Ceramic Tile & Marble 3130 North Del Mar Ave. Rosemead, CA 91770 626.288.8693 www.MontereyCeramicTile.com |
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