Masterpieces of Art Pottery: 1880–1930 Maritime Hundreds of photos

Hundreds of photos

the end of World War II

Community memories and monumental events

Many of the images inside are extremely rare – culled through extensive research by staff librarians and archivists

turning out the lights on more than 200

Masterpieces of Art Pottery: 1880–1930 Maritime Hundreds of photosThe Newark Museum began exhibiting art pottery in 1910, just one year after it was founded. A century later, the Museum boasts one of the most historically important and well documented art pottery collections in the nation. John Cotton Dana, founding director of the Museum, saw pottery as the ideal way to involve the average museum visitor with art. A vase was functional, but it could also be set on a shelf and appreciated for both its beauty and its