This hand-thrown lid for a stoneware crockery vessel was excavated from Bonniebrook, the estate of American illustrator, cartoonist, artist, writer, and suffragette Rose O’Neill, who is best-known for her invention of the Kewpie doll character. Several years after O’Neill’s death in 1944, her house at Bonniebrook burned to the ground, and curious local people … [Read more...] about Hand-Thrown Lid: Researched, Conserved, and Reconstructed by Sabrina Osment
This large, hand-painted landscape screen is believed to have decorated the Riverside Inn in Ozark, Missouri. The Riverside Inn was an Ozark institution that stood on the Finely River from 1925 to 2009. The hotel and restaurant sold fried chicken and served as a well-known playhouse in the region. The owner of Riverside Inn, Howard Garrison, was an infamous but well-loved … [Read more...] about Maitland-Smith Landscape Painting: Researched, Conserved, and Restored by Abbey Waterworth
Storyteller figures are popular collector’s items that are made by potters from a variety of different pueblos of the American Southwest. Helen Cordero of the Cochiti Pueblo has been credited with originating the concept and design of the storyteller figure. The seated form of the storyteller was inspired by the “Singing Mother” effigy—the figure of a seated mother with a … [Read more...] about Jemez Culture Storyteller Figure: Researched, Conserved, and Restored by Whitney Mosley