Plate with Still Life
Henry Varnum Poor
1922–1923
- Medium
- Earthenware (red bodied), slip, colored underglaze decoration, and tin glaze
- Dimensions
- 4 × 21.6 × 21.5 cm (1 5/8 × 8 9/16 × 8 1/2 in.)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
Cubismslipamerican artsModernismslip decoratedearthenwarediningceramicsdish (vessel)american decorative artsstill lifecolored glazesplatesdecorative arts20th Centuryglazingthrowing (pottery technique)plate (general, dish)
About
Henry Varnum Poor originally trained as a painter in California but turned to pottery for economic reasons. In his abstracted earthenware decoration, Poor made use of his skills as a draftsman, emphasizing the simplified forms of Modernism to which he was drawn. This plate reveals the artist’s debt to the French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne in its fluid arrangement of forms along the table edge and the flatness of the composition.
