Product Description

"Shearwater Pottery" coming December 15 2005. Dod Stewart, the author, dedicated several years writing and photographing this book. Marjorie Anderson Ashley, is one of the daughters of Peter Anderson, who founded Shearwater Pottery in 1928. Special sections by Mary Anderson Pickard, Walter Inglis Andersons daughter, about her father and her son Christopher Stebly. History of the Anderson family: genealogy, early contacts with Newcomb College Pottery, George Ohr, & other facts. Sections dedicated to decorators: Mere Anderson, sons Walter Inglis Anderson and James McConnell (Mac) Anderson, brothers of founder Peter Anderson. Rare, never before seen pieces from family, private collections & museums. Plates of the thrown and decorated wares by: Patricia A. Findeisen, Adele A.Lawton, Jim Anderson, Michael Anderson, Chris Stebly and Peter W Anderson. Thousands of color plates of utilitarian ware, blacks, animals, pirates and sports figurals. Walter Anderson plate designs. First book devoted to artistic examples produced by this talented family in their more than 75 yrs of operation. Walter I. Anderson is considered to be the most important Southern artist and honored by the Smithsonian with a show. Book comes at a sad time since most of the pottery buildings, family homes and many of the examples in this book, no longer exist after the recent devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Tragically, this book is now the only record of the Shearwater Anderson family compound along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, as it once was. Contains the most accurate record for identifying marks and dating Shearwater pottery., Photos of pottery bottoms and actual artists ciphers and marks done by the Anderson family members. Pottery dealers & collectors will find it an invaluable educational resource, & investment. Previously difficult to accurately identify and date many pieces, especially those by Walter Anderson, who never signed his work which is quite valuable.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1662355 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-15
• Format: Illustrated
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 337 pages

Customer Reviews

The mind of tactile beauty
Dod Stewart brings to the admiration of art pottery what the potter brought when he created the art: an astute love of beauty savoring details of endless variety. The book is a delight for the documentation, of course, but the sheer pleasure of the author is everywhere apparent, and that makes the book an artwork itself. This is a work of great value to art history, and the book itself becomes part of the history of art. Wonderful.

Shear Pleasure
This book would have been great before Katrina. Now that the big one swept over the little town of Ocean Springs Mississippi, and the Anderson Pottery took a big hit and lost a lot of the pieces illustrated in this book this book becomes very valuable to all collectors of art pottery. Wow. This book with it's zillion of photos will be THE book on Shearwater for many years to come. I think that anyone in the pottery making business would benefit owning a copy, it is like owning a recording of every song Bach wrote. It is just a darn good encylopedia of all things that relate to pottery - glazes, throwing on the wheel, using molds, etc...

A wonderful book for Shearwater collectors
This is the most complete pictorial record available of Shearwater Pottery, with photographs covering the entire range of its output from its founding in the 1920s to the present day, with separate chapters for each of its decorators.