Esoteric Survey

Doyle Lane Bill Curry for Design Line and Peter Pepper Products table by Howard McNab & Don Savage  Architectural Fiberglass, Architectural Pottery ashtray and Earthgender I finally found a Byron Temple in the wild. You should have seen the pile of garbage I pulled it out of.

Doyle Lane from the late 1950s Jean Balmer Jere Osgood book ends. The only other piece I've had by him was one of his amazing clocks. These bookends were sold through America House. America House was a retail sales outlet for craft located in New York City, operated by the American Craftsmen’s Council. They were in opertaion in various forms from 1940 to 1971. The catalogs are great. They sold some major work by the Natzlers, Paul Evans, Soleri, and many lesser known artists. Also, I paid a lot more than that. Craftlation is real. Robert Sperry Ed Thompson was in the San Diego Allied Craftsmen and Potter's Guild. I've known of his work for a long time but have started to appreciate it a lot more recently. He knew his way around a wheel, that's for sure. His surface design is pretty great too.

Lot 158 Tony Hill Lamp Tony Hill, Wilmer James and Doyle Lane were all black ceramicists in Los Angeles during the mid-century. They also all studied under Glen Lukens. Tony happened upon a night class Glen Lukens was teaching to “housewives and war workers” at the Pueblo at the Del Rio housing project ( Paul Revere Williams and Richard Neutra helped design the layout of Pueblo Del Rio). Tony was instantly inspired by the potential ceramics had to offer and was the first black student enrolled in ceramics classes at USC under Lukens. It was Lukens who encouraged Hill to start his lamp business.  The lamp can be seen here with a shade, to the right of Tony himself. He was in California Design 7 (1961) Photo: Jet, 1957 Tony Hill and Wilmer James  In 1944 Tony co-founded a studio in Los Angeles on South Arlington Ave with Wilmer James. According to a 1946 Ebony article, Tony tried to rent a store and “Security First National Bank wouldn't rent to a Negro”. A white friend rented t...

  Doyle Lane It's great to be back shopping in California. Shawako Shintani, Claude Horan, Marguerite Wildenhain Richard Galef for Ravenware Heath, stuff and Bill Chapelow Paper

  Doyle Lane: Weed Pots , an exhibition curated by Ricky Swallow at David Kordansky Gallery in New York. Featuring nearly 100 works, Doyle Lane: Weed Pots is an expanded iteration of a related exhibition of sixty pots that took place at David Kordansky Gallery’s Los Angeles location in 2020.  I'm so fortunate to have been able to make the trip to New York to see this one in person. Ricky is so deep into Lane--not only as a longtime collector but also as the author of the book,  Doyle Lane : Weed Pots . He put together an amazing selection of pots that nobody else could have accomplished. The examples of glazes and forms are most certainly the best selection of weed pots that have ever been assembled. They really show what an amazing artist Doyle was--and this is just the weed pots! The ephemera case.  Doyle's business card and a keychain by him. OBJECTS : USA represented Here come the pots! One of my favorites in the show. This one came from the estate of a promine...