Mid-Century Studio Pottery Plate with Abstracted Nude in Landscape Renwick gallery with patina to copper and

with patina to copper and minor cracking of wood (visible in face) consistent with age and adding character

postmarked 1911

This vase features the original Pottery Craft sticker (though worn) and is in excellent vintage condition

and it would had a come in a box titled "Prairie Wagon

The exterior shows a wonderfully nuanced range of tones

Mid-Century Studio Pottery Plate with Abstracted Nude in Landscape Renwick gallery with patina to copper andI LOVE the figure on the face of this plate, strangely and evocatively elongated like a late day shadow, and with these two wonderfully trailing inky black lines lending just a bit of definition and also tension. It makes me think of everything from the paintings of Albert Pinkham Ryder to those of de Chirico to the work of Ana Mendieta to the early 20th century photographs of Anne Brigman (look her up!), and Arts & Crafts era craft, too, and I've