Josiah Wedgwood built his city out of clay and many people have visited his city and those who visited there and left to build their own cities couldn't help thinking of Josiah's

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Josiah Wedgwood built his city out of clay and many people have visited his city and those who visited there and left to build their own cities couldn't help thinking of Josiah's

Artist Jack Earl (American, born 1934)

Date1979

Dimensions10 5/8 x 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (27 x 29.2 x 21 cm)

MediumPorcelain and oil paint

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LineGift of Dorothy and George Saxe

Object number

1994.55

Not on View

Published ReferencesNordness, Lee, Jack Earl/The Genesis and Triumphant Survival of an Underground Ohio Artist (Chicago, 1985), pls. 38, 39. Knoerle, Jane, "The Saxes' Hobby Has Grown into a World Class Collection," The Country Almanac, Apr. 3, 1991, p. 26 (ill.) (Home & Garden Special Section).Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center (organized by Helen W. Drutt English for the Buten Museum of Wedgwood, Merion, Pennsylvania), "Contemporary Ceramics: A Response to Wedgwood," 1980. New York, Theo Portnoy Gallery, "Jack Earl: New Ceramic Sculpture," 1982. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, University Art Museum, "Recent Ceramic Sculpture" (exh. cat., ill.), 1985-1986. Sheboygan, Wisconsin, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, "Ohio Boy: The Ceramic Sculpture of Jack Earl" (exh. cat., no. 30, p. 41) (traveled to New York, American Craft Museum; Racine, Wisconsin, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts; Ames, Iowa, Octagon Center for the Arts), 1987-1988. Toledo Museum of Art; The Saint Louis Art Museum; Newport Beach, California, Newport Harbor Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution, Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, 1993-1995, pl. 68A, B, p. 104, cat. no. 24, p. 194.