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Indepth Arts News:
"Fired by Ideals: Arequipa Pottery and the Arts and
Crafts Movement"
2000-11-11 until 2001-04-29
Oakland Museum of Califoria
Oakland, CA,
USA
Fired by Ideals: Arequipa Pottery and the Arts and Crafts
Movement is the first major exhibition of pottery produced at
the Arequipa Sanatorium in Marin County during the years
1911-1918. The exhibition includes more than 100 pieces in what is thought to be the largest showing
of these works since the Arequipa studio exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of
1915 in San Francisco. A series of public programs about California pottery will complement the
exhibition, which runs from Nov. 11 through April 29, 2001 at the Oakland Museum of California.
November 11, 2000 through April 29, 2001
Fired by Ideals: Arequipa Pottery and the Arts and
Crafts Movement
Art Special Gallery
Presented by the Art Department
Fired by Ideals: Arequipa Pottery and the Arts and Crafts
Movement is the first major exhibition of pottery produced at
the Arequipa Sanatorium in Marin County during the years
1911-1918. The exhibition includes more than 100 pieces in what is thought to be the largest showing
of these works since the Arequipa studio exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of
1915 in San Francisco. A series of public programs about California pottery will complement the
exhibition, which runs from Nov. 11 through April 29, 2001 at the Oakland Museum of California.
Arequipa pottery, produced by tuberculosis patients at
the sanatorium, is recognized today as among the most
important California pottery of the Arts and Crafts
period. This exhibition features examples of the wide
variety of pottery designs and techniques that
characterized the work of the studio. Also included are
tiles from Casa Dorinda, a 65-room Spanish Colonial
mansion near Santa Barbara that was designed by Carleton
Winslow in 1916. In its largest and final commission,
Arequipa produced 8750 tiles, based on
Hispano-Moresque designs by Frank Ingerson, for the
lower great hall and upper corridor of the mansion.
The exhibition tells two stories, that of the sanatorium
itself and that of the pottery produced there.
IMAGE:
Vase,
1913;
Madrona Vase, c. 1911-13,
Bowl, 1912
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