Centerpiece Bowl

Russel Wright; Bauer Pottery Company

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

The undulating lines of the wooden bowl shown here evoke a jellyfish in motion, or a leaf curling in the summer sun. Russel Wright experimented with these curving, biomorphic shapes in several media and clearly found them interesting in their own right. Although neither easy to make nor particularly suited to their purpose, these bowls were, however, wonderfully playful and suggestive of nature to the consumers he targeted.

Caption

Russel Wright (American, 1904–1976); Bauer Pottery Company. Centerpiece Bowl, ca. 1946. Earthenware, 4 1/2 x 14 in. (11.4 x 35.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1994.165.30. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

Centerpiece Bowl

Date

ca. 1946

Medium

Earthenware

Classification

Ceramic

Dimensions

4 1/2 x 14 in. (11.4 x 35.6 cm)

Signatures

not signed

Inscriptions

no inscriptions

Markings

on bottom, impressed: "(in script) Russel Wright/(block) BAUER"

Credit Line

Gift of Paul F. Walter

Accession Number

1994.165.30

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