Basket with Frog and Ravens

USA, 2012
<p>A basket that tapers inward from a wide base. The sides end with a prominent lip. The sides begin very rough and dark gradually lightening to tan at the top. A very sketchy raven's head that is scratched into the shows as black lines. The handle is three pieces of oval clay. The one on the right is shorter. It has another piece attached to its top. That piece is horizontal runs beyond the piece it rests on to the right. On the left it extends over the basket and joins the taller piece leaving some of the vertical piece exrending above it. The pieces are joined by pressing the pieces of clay together. A sculptural frog is sitting where these two pieces meet. It is facing to the right, is tan with a very black eye. Its front and back foot are holding on to the clay piece it's sitting on. A coil of clay bent into a V forms the foot.</p>
E. John Bullard Collection
Date acquired:
Materials:
Earthenware
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
Thrown and Altered
Hand-Built
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes:
Glaze
Ron Meyers

Ron Meyers has spent decades working with red earthenware. His thrown pots, always functional in some way, display his casual and spontaneous manner with clay. Each of Meyer?s pots is characterized by hand and finger marks left from throwing and altering the piece. He commonly pokes pieces, adding a wobbly unevenness to the forms.

His early passion to become a cartoonist is evident in his narrative, sometimes confrontational, colored slip surface paintings. His whimsical subjects range from animal forms to female nudes. Meyers fires his works first in an electric kiln and then in a gas kiln.

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E. John Bullard Collection

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