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    Pisgah Forest and Nonconnah Pottery

    Pisgah Forest and Nonconnah Pottery

    Presented by Memphis Brooks Museum of Art at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

    August 29-November 13, 2011

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    Curated by Stanton Thomas, Ph.D, Curator of European and Decorative Art
    Presenting Sponsor: Humanities Tennessee
    Exhibition Sponsors: The Knapp Foundation Douglas W. Ferris Jr. and Decorative Arts Trust
    This project is funded in part by a grant from Humanities Tennessee, an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

    Around 1900, Walter B. Stephen (1876–1961) began experimenting with colored clays he found in Nonconnah Creek near Memphis. Although untrained, the artist was soon producing matte-glazed pottery with floral and scenic decorations of thinned clay known as “slip.” Stephen’s early work, such as his Vase with Poppy Decoration (ca.1900) is of surprising quality, delicacy, and beauty.
     


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