The
The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and
Printed Ephemera
Henry Francis du Pont
5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur,
Delaware 19735
302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883
OVERVIEW OF
THE COLLECTION
Creator: Evans, Paul, 1937-
Title: Art pottery research papers
Dates: 1900-1990, bulk 1970-1987
Call No.:
Acc. No.: 01x1, 08x56, 15x100
Quantity: 27 boxes
Location: 23 D 1-6
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENT
Paul Evans was born in 1937 in
He served as editor of Pacific Churchman, a publication of the Episcopal Diocese of
California, editor of Western Collector,
and western division editor of Spinning
Wheel. The latter two publications
were written for antique and collectibles dealers and collectors.
Evans is an honorary member of the American Ceramic
Arts Society. He lectures, writes, and
serves as a museum consultant. Since
1982, he has lived in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he was co-proprietor of
the Anglican Bibliopole, an antiquarian bookshop specializing in books related
to the Episcopal Church. (The bookstore
closed around 2010.)
In 1974 Evans’ book Art Pottery of the United States: An Encyclopedia of Producers and Their
Marks was published. A second
edition followed in 1987. He has
contributed chapters and forewords to a number of other books about art pottery
and potters, and written many articles on these subjects. In 1968, he was the guest speaker on a public
television program about the Dedham Pottery.
SCOPE AND
CONTENT
Paul Evans amassed most of the papers in this
collection while doing research on art potteries for magazine articles and for
his book Art Pottery of the United States
(which appeared in two editions). The collection includes correspondence
with dealers, collectors, museums, libraries, and government departments;
photographs of pottery, marks, and people associated with art potteries; a
videotape; postcards; newspaper and magazine articles, many of which are copies
of articles that appeared at the time the pottery was being made;
advertisements and trade catalogs; pamphlets; announcements of exhibits; and
other materials relating to different art potteries and the people associated
with them. Included with the
correspondence are some letters with children of potters and copies of letters
from the Charles F. Binns collection at
A later edition to the collection pertains to
silver, mostly silver made or sold in San Francisco, California. Paul Evans wrote several articles on this
topic for the magazine Spinning Wheel. Of particular note are original labels,
printed and illustrated billheads, and stationery for the San Francisco
retailer J.W. Tucker & Co.
ORGANIZATION
The papers are arranged primarily by the name of each
pottery business, with a few files under the names of individuals or
places. (Smaller potteries or those on
which he did not have much material are grouped by letter; A, B, C, etc.)
LANGUAGE OF
MATERIALS
The materials are in English.
RESTRICTIONS
ON ACCESS
Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.
PROVENANCE
All accessions; gift of Paul Evans.
RELATED MATERIALS
Books and other manuscript collections about art pottery or potters are in the Winterthur Library; check the catalog for references.
The
ACCESS POINTS
People:
Barber, Edwin Atlee,
1851-1916.
Batchelder, Ernest Allen,
1876-
Binns, Charles
Fergus, 1857-1934.
Blasberg, Robert
W.
Doat, Taxile.
Frackelton,
Susan Stuart Goodrich, 1848-
Jervis,
William Percival, 1850-
Ohr, George,
1857-1918.
Peck, Herbert.
Rhead, Frederick
Hurten, 1880-1942.
Robineau,
Robertson
family.
Schneider,
Norris Franz, 1898-
Volkmar,
Charles, 1841-1914.
Topics:
American Terra
Cotta and Ceramics Company.
Byrdcliffe (Art colony).
Faience
Manufacturing Company.
Fulper Pottery
Company.
Gates Potteries
(Terra Cotta,
Grueby Faience
& Tile Co.
J.G. & J.F.
Low Art Tile Works.
J.W. Tucker
& Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)
Knowles, Taylor
& Knowles (
Moravian Pottery
and Tile Works.
Newcomb Pottery
(
Niloak Pottery
Company.
Ott and Brewer
Company.
Overbeck
Pottery.
Paul Revere
Pottery, Inc. (
Pewabic Pottery
(Firm).
Robertson Art
Tile Co. (
Rookwood
Pottery.
Roseville
Pottery Company.
Tiffany Studios.
Van Briggle
Pottery Company.
Weller Pottery.
Wheatley Pottery
Company.
Pottery – Marks.
Pottery –
Art pottery, American.
Pottery –
Pottery –
Pottery –
Pottery –
Pottery –
Silverware – California.
Tiles –
Tiles –
Trade catalogs –
Pottery, American.
Black-and-white
photographs.
Color photographs.
Correspondence.
DETAILED
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
Location: 23 D
1-6
Folder 1: “Art
Pottery Era” and “Art Potter in the U.S.”” introduction (acc. 15x100)
Folder 2: Art Pottery of the United States: Draft
1, part 1
Folder 3: Art Pottery of the United States: Draft
1, part 2
Folder 4: Art Pottery of the United States: Draft
2, part 1
Folder 5: Art Pottery of the United States: Draft
2, part 2
Folder 6: Art Pottery of the United States:
reviews (acc. 15x100)
Folder 7: Art Pottery of the United States: 2d
edition: corrected proofs (acc. 15x100)
[folder
1 of 2, continues in next box]
Folder 1: Art Pottery of the United States: 2d
edition: corrected proofs (acc. 15x100)
[folder
2 of 2, continued from previous box]
Folder 2: Art pottery text: photos (acc. 15x100)
Folder 3: A
Folder 4: Albery
Novelty
Folder 5: American
Art Ceramic Co.
Folder 6: American
Ceramic Society collection (acc. 15x100)
Folder 7: American/Edgerton
Art Clay Works
[see
also: Edgerton Pottery]
Folder 8: Arc-en-Ciel
Folder 9: Arequipa
(Fairfax, Calif.)
Box 3:
Folder 1: Art
pottery: the artistic/technical tension
Folder 2: Articles,
primarily on pottery, by Paul Evans, from Spinning
Wheel (acc. 15x100)
Folder 3: Avon
Pottery (Cincinnati)
Folder 4: B
Folders 5-6: Barber,
Edwin A., parts 1-2
Folder 7: Barber,
Edwin A.: miscellaneous catalogs
Folder 8: Batchelder,
Ernest A.
Folder 9: Bauer,
J. A., Pottery
Folder 10: Bennett,
John (New York City)
Folder 11: Bibliographies
(acc. 15x100)
Folders 1-2: Binns,
Charles F.
Folder 3: Binns,
Charles F.: drafts of essay by Evans
Folder 4: Binns,
Charles F.: notes for Evan’s essay
Folder 5: Binns,
Charles F.: notes (acc. 15x100)
Folder 6: Brodie,
Regis C. (acc. 15x100)
Folder 7: Brush
Guild (Perkins)
Folder 8: Buffalo
Pottery
Folder 1: Byrdcliffe
Folder 2: C
Folder 3: California
Faience (The Tile Shop), Berkeley, Calif.
Folder 4: California
potteries: miscellaneous and historical
Folder 5: Camark
Folder 7: Canada
Folder 8: Chicago:
decorative arts, including art pottery
Folder 9: Chicago
Terra Cotta Works
Folder 10: China
painting, pre-Rookwood
Folder 11: Cincinnati:
miscellaneous potteries
Folder 12: Cincinnati
Art Pottery
Folder 13: Cincinnati
Faience
Box 6:
Folder 1: Cincinnati
Pottery Club
Folder 2: Clewell
Metal Art
Folder 3: Clifton
Pottery (Newark, N.J., 1905-)
Folder 4: Conestoga
Pottery
Folder 5: Cook
Pottery
Folder 6: Corona
Pottery (A. Benkert/W.P. Jervis)
Folder 7: Coultry,
P. L, & Co. (Rettig & Valentine)
Folder 8: Cowan
Pottery Studio, 1913-1931
Folder 9: Cox Pottery (Paul E. Cox)
Folder 10: Craven
Art Pottery
Folder 11: D
Folder 12: Dallas
Pottery (Hamilton Road Pottery)
Folder 13: Dayton
Porcelain Works (Isaac Broome)
Folder 14: Dell,
William , & Co. (
Folder 15: Denver
China & Pottery
Box 7:
Folder 1: Doat,
Taxile
Folder 2: Dolls’
heads
Folder 3: Dorchester
Pottery
Folder 4: Durant
Kilns
Folder 5: E
Folder 6: Edgerton
Pottery, including Rock Pottery
[see
also American/Edgerton Art Clay Works]
Folder 7: Edwin
Bennett Pottery Co.
Folder 8: Enfield
Pottery and Tile Works
Folder 10: Everson
Museum and ceramics symposium (acc. 15x100)
Folder 11: Expositions
and exhibitions
Folder 12: Exhibitions:
National Society of Craftsmen
Folder 13: Exhibitions:
Folder 14: F
Folder 15: Faience
Manufacturing Co. (Edward Lycett)
Folder 16: Faience
Pottery
Folder 17: Florentine
Pottery
Box 8:
Folder 1: Frackelton,
Susan
Folder 2: Fraunfelter
China Co.
Folder 3: Fry,
Laura Anne
Folder 4: Fulper
Pottery, part 1
[includes a trade catalog for The Prang Company, 1929]
Folder 6: G
Folder 7: Glossary
(acc. 15x100)
Box 9:
Folder 1: Graham
Pottery
Folders 2-3: Grand
Feu Art Pottery
Folders 4-5: Grueby
Faience, parts 1-2
Folder 6: H
Folder 7: Haeger
Pottery
Box 10:
Folder 2: Hampshire
Pottery
Folder 3: Handicraft
Guild (Minneapolis)
Folder 4: Hartford
Faience
Folder 5: Heritage
Foundation (acc. 15x100)
Folder 6: Houghton
Pottery
Folder 7: I
Folder 8: J
Folder 9: Jalan
(San Francisco)
Folder 10: Jervis,
W. P., of
Folder 11: K
Folder 12: Kenton
Hills
Folder 13: Kiss
Art Pottery
Folder 14: Knowles,
Taylor & Knowles (Homer Knowles Pottery)
Folder 15: L
Folder 16: Lenox
Box 11:
Folder 2: Lonhuda
Pottery
Folder 3: Losanti
(McLaughlin)
[see
also McLaughlin, M. Louise]
Folders 4-5: Low
Art Tiles, parts 1-2
Folder 6: M
Folder 7: Marblehead
Pottery (Massachusetts)
Folder 8: Markham
Pottery
Folder 9: Massanetta
Art Pottery Co.
Folder 10: Matt
Morgan Art Pottery
Box 12:
Folder 2: McLaughlin,
M. Louise
[see
also Losanti]
Folder 3: Merrimac
Pottery
Folder 4: Miami
Pottery
Folder 5: Middle
Lane Pottery (T.A. Brower)
Folders 6-7: Moravian
Pottery, parts 1-2
Folder 8: Mott
Pottery Works
Folder 9: Mountainside
Art Pottery
Folder 10: Mugs
with frogs
Box 13:
Folder 1: N
[includes
information about
Folder 2: Nashville Art Pottery (Tennessee)
Folder 3: New
Orleans Art Pottery
Folder 4: Newcomb
Pottery (New Orleans) (1897-1940)
Folder 5: Newcomb
Pottery: articles
Folder 6: Newcomb
Pottery: theses
Folder 7: Nielson
Pottery
Box 14:
Folders 1-2: Niloak,
parts 1-2
Folder 4: Northwestern
Terra Cotta (including Chicago Crucible)
Folder 5: O
(including Ott and Brewer Company)
Folder 6: Oakland
Art Pottery, and California Pottery & Terra Cotta
Folder 7: Oakwood
Art Pottery (Patterson Bros.)
Folder 8: Oakwood
Pottery (Dayton)
Folder 9: Oakwood
Pottery Co. (
Folder 10: Odell
& Booth Brothers (Tarrytown, NY)
Folder 11: Ohio:
art pottery (general, including smaller producers)
Folder 12: Ohr,
George (Biloxi Art Pottery, New Orleans Art Pottery), part 1
[continues
in next box]
Box 15:
Folder 1: Ohr,
George (Biloxi Art Pottery, New Orleans Art Pottery), part 2
[continued
from previous box]
Folder 2: Ohr, George (Biloxi Art Pottery, New
Orleans Art Pottery): videotape of “The Mad Potter of Biloxi”
Folders 4-5: Ouachita
Box 16:
Folder
1: Owen China Co. and Swastika
Keramos
Folder
2: Owens
Folder 4: Pauline
Pottery
Folders 5-6: Paul
Revere Pottery, Boston, parts 1-2
Folder 7: Peters
& Reed (Zane Pottery)
Folders 8-9: Pewabic
Pottery, Detroit, Michigan, begun 1903, parts 1-2
Box 17:
Folder 1: Pipes,
ceramic
Folder 2: Poillon
Pottery
Folder 3: Portland
Stoney Ware Co. (J.T. Winslow & Co.)
Folder 4: Presidential
china
Folder 5: Q-R
Folder 6: Radford,
A.
Folder 7: Redlands
Pottery
Folder 8: Redwood
Pottery
Folder 9: Revere/Roman,
224 North St.,
Folders 10-11: Rhead, Frederick H., parts 1-2
[continues in next box]
Box 18:
Folder 1: Rhead,
Frederick H., part 3
[continues
from previous box]
Folder 2: Rhead,
Frederick H.: “Chats on Pottery,” copy 1
Folder 3: Rhead,
Frederick H.: “Chats on Pottery,” copy 2, with notes
Folder 4: Rhead,
Frederick H.: “Studio Pottery”
Folder 5: Rhead,
Frederick H.: “The
Folder 6: Robertson
potteries: Alberhill, 1912-1914
Folder 7: Robertson
potteries: articles about various potteries
Folder 8: Robertson
potteries: Chelsea Keramic Art Works, A
Box 19:
Folder 1: Robertson
potteries: Chelsea Keramic Art Works, B, and Dedham Pottery
Folder 2: Robertson
potteries: Chelsea Keramic Art Works: photographs
Folder 3: Robertson
potteries: Claycraft, 1920-1934 (also L.A. Pressed Brick included)
Folder 4: Robertson
potteries: Dedham Pottery, C, part 1
[also
some Dedham Pottery material in Chelsea Keramic Art Works, B]
Folder 5: Robertson
potteries: Dedham Pottery, C, part 2
Folder 6: Robertson
potteries, Dedham Pottery, C, part 3
Folder 7: Robertson
potteries: Dedham Exhibition, 1968, D
Folder 8: Robertson
potteries: Dedham book, E
Box 20:
Folder 1: Robertson
potteries: Dedham: miscellaneous correspondence
Folder 2: Robertson
potteries: Dedham: photographs
Folder 3: Robertson potteries: Dedham Pottery:
PBS show with Paul Evans talking about Dedham: photographs
Folder 4: Robertson
potteries: Dedham Pottery: photograph from newspaper
Folder 5: Robertson
potteries: Halcyon Pottery, ca.1911
Folder 6: Robertson potteries: information from
E.A. Barber’s The Pottery and the
Porcelain of the United States
Folder 7: Robertson
potteries: miscellaneous photographs
Folder 8: Robertson
potteries: P.C.W./Vallejo
Folder 9: Robertson potteries: Robertson Pottery,
Los Angeles and Hollywood (L.A. Pressed Brick included)
Folder 10: Robertson
potteries: Robertson, A. W.: miscellaneous
Folder 11: Robertson
potteries: Robertson family: correspondence
Folder 12: Robertson
potteries: Robertson family: miscellaneous notes
Folder 13: Robertson
potteries: Robertson, George W.: musician [and potter]
Folder 14: Robertson
potteries: Robertson, George W. / Robertson Art Tile
Folder 15: Robertson
potteries: Roblin (San Francisco)
Box 21: (flat
box)
Folder 1: Robertson potteries: magazine article: “To Watch a Potter Thumping His Clay,” 1933
Folder 2: Robertson potteries: negatives for the magazine article: “To Watch a Potter Thumping His Clay”
Folder 3: Robertson potteries: photograph of newspaper article about Dedham Pottery, 1931
Box 22:
Folder 1: Robineau,
Adelaide A.: articles about
Folder 2: Robineau,
Adelaide A.: collections of her work
Folder 3: Robineau, Adelaide A.: proposed book
by Olmstead, with articles by various authors
Folder 4: Robineau
Pottery (porcelain), part 1
Folder 5: Robineau
Pottery (porcelain), part 2
Folders 6-7: Rookwood,
parts 1-2
Box 23:
Folders 1-2: Rookwood:
articles, parts 1-2
Folder 3: Rookwood: “Rookwood’s History”
(printed by the company, ca.1920); postcard; photograph
Folder 4: Rose
Valley
Folder 6: S
Folder 7: Schools:
ceramic and miscellaneous
Folder 8: Shawsheen
Folder 9: Sinclair
Art Pottery Co.
Folder 10: Smithsonian
Institution: pottery (acc. 15x100)
Folder 11: “The Society of Arts & Crafts,
Boston and New York, 1897-1924,” by May R. Spain (acc. 15x100)
Box 24:
Folder 1: Solon
family
Folder 2: Steiger
Folder 3: Stockton
(California)
Folder 4: Strobl
(Cincinnati)
Folder 5: Studio
potters and ceramic artists: proposed directories (acc. 15x100)
Folder 6: T
Folder 8: Teco,
American Terra Cotta, Gates, part 2
Folder 9: Tiffany
Pottery
Folder 10: Tiles,
art, American, part 1
[continues
in next box]
Box 25:
Folders 1-3: Tiles,
art, American, parts 2-4
Folder 4: Tiles,
Mexican
Folders 5-7: Tiles,
New York subway system, parts 1-3
Folder 1: Tiles,
roofing
Folder 2: Trentvale
Pottery
Folder 3: U
Folders 4-5: University
City, parts 1-2
Folder 6: University
City: photographs
Folder 7: University City: “Drawn from the Kilns
of University City,” thesis by Curtis R. Thomas, 1974
Folder 8: University of North Dakota Pottery
(acc. 15x100)
Folder 9: Upjohn, C. B., Pottery
Folder 10: V
Folders 11-12: Valentien Pottery (San Diego,
Calif.), parts 1-2
[continues
in next box]
Box 27:
Folder 1: Valentien Pottery (San Diego, Calif.), part 3: photographs
[continued from previous box]
Folders 2-3: Van Briggle Pottery, parts 1-2
Folder 4: Van Briggle Pottery, part 3: photographs
Folder 5: Van der Meulen & Wykstra
Folder 6: Vance & Avon
Folder 7: Volkmar, Charles and Leon, part 1
[continues in next box]
Box 28:
Folder 1: Volkmar, Charles, and Leon, part 2
[continued from previous box]
Folder 2: W
Folder 3: Walley, W. J.
Folder 4: Walrath Pottery
Folder 5: Walrich (Berkeley, Calif.)
Folder 6: Wannopee Pottery
Folder 7: Weller, H. A.
Folder 8: Weller, S. A.
Folder 9: Wheatley, T. J./Wheatley Pottery Company
Folder 10: White Pines Pottery
Folder 11: White Pottery (Denver Art Pottery)
Box 29:
Folder 1: Wire, E. Stanley: “Decorative Tiles,” from New England Architect and Builder, 1960 (acc. 15x100)
Folder 2: X, Y, Z
Folder 3: Zanesville Art Pottery
Folder 4: Zark/Ozark Pottery
Folder 5: Book reviews
[not about Evans’ book]
Folder 6: Miscellaneous materials
Folder 7: Correspondence, miscellaneous
Folder 8: Correspondence:
A-W (acc. 15x100)
Folder 9: Correspondence: Blasberg, Robert W.
Folder 10: Correspondence: Lehrer, Lois (acc. 15x100)
Box 30:
Folder 1: Correspondence: Morse, Barbara
Folders 2-3: Correspondence: Museum correspondence:
filed by location of museum, A-Z (acc.
15x100)
Folder 4: Correspondence: Newark Museum (N.J.)
Folders 5-6: Correspondence: Pasadena Art Museum: California Design exhibit, part 1
Folder 7: Correspondence: Peck, Herbert
Folder 8: Correspondence: Schneider, Norris F.
Box 31: Silver
files (chiefly California silver; acc. 15x100)
Folders 1-2: Silver: by maker: articles on Hammersmith & Field; F.R. Reichel and Koehler & Ritter; Schulz & Fischer; Shreve & Co.; and Vanderslice & Co.
Folder 3: Silver: by maker: Blanchard, Porter; and Wise, Lewis
Folder 4: Silver: by maker: Graves, Samuel
Folder 5: Silver: makers in San Francisco (by time period, not by name)
Folder 6: Silver: California silver material: miscellaneous
Folder 7: Silver: checklists of individuals
Folder 8: Silver: Hawaiian spoons
Folder 9: Silver: Medals and badges
Folder 10: Silver: Patterns
Folder 11: Silver: retailers
Folder 12: Silver: retailers in California and Oregon
Folder 13: Silver: retailers in California and Oregon: J.W. Tucker & Co., San Francisco
[includes original labels, billheads, stationery]
Folder 14: Silver: sterling versus coin
Folder 15: Silver: A. Thumbler notes
Folder 16: Silver: article on gold quartz jewelry
Box 32: Silver
files: Elliot Evans (chiefly California silver; acc. 15x100)
Folder 1: Silver: articles on medallion silver, by Elliot Evans (1968)
Folders 2-3: Silver: Evans, Elliot: correspondence, notes
Folder 4: Silver: Evans, Elliot: “Early San Francisco Silver, 1850-1920”: cassette tape