Pots at the PMA

This is a crazy week! I've collected and delivered artwork for the Battle of the Sexes show down in Wilmington, been teaching, and writing up a paper for the History of Modern Craft and Design. We had to select an object dated between 1915-1945 from the Philadelphia Art Museum's American wing to describe and contextualize. I selected a white glazed ceramic pot from the Rookwood Pottery in Ohio by ceramicist, William Hentschel. Here's the sketch:

It was an interesting paper to write, as there are quite a few pieces by Hentschel in the museum collection, and I traced the cultural influences evident in his work across 3 decades. Unfortunately I waited so long to write the paper that I squeezed it into last night-- and now I'm exhausted and sleep deprived. Time for a nap.