Word: potters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...javelin; F. E. Cummings '31, dashes; W. M. Dow '29, broad jump; Leslie Flaksman '29, distances; A. E. French '29, dashes; David Guarnaccia '29, weights; T. F. Mason '30, dashes; T. G. Moore '29, javelin; R. H. O'Connell '30, hurdles; R. P. Porter '29, distances; J. W. Potter '30, weights; J. L. Reid '29, distances; G. W. Smith 3E.S., distances; G. A. Tupper '29, hurdles, and J. O. Wildes '29, distances...
...Potter Poor justifies his exacting process by showing that it necessitates brisk, simple design−''the subordination of technique"−and produces "depth and brilliance of color." The resulting ornaments−leaves, flowers, nude figures, abstract patterns−are so sketchy that the temptation is to call them naive. They are the simplification of form to only the essential contours, graceful and spontaneous. They are not precise and intricate geometry...
...this earthy naturalism of Potter Poor's work, timeless and styleless as so many lustrous beach pebbles, which constitutes its solid, enduring value and which has quietly made its creator his reputation. Acceptance by the Metropolitan Museum, profuse with classic pottery, has dignified a career as unceremonious and sincere as that of a medieval illuminator...
...University, studied painting at the Slade School and with Walter Sickert in London, and at the Julian Academy in Paris. After painting for several years, he found himself distressed by "the devitalizing isolation of the studio." Believing that modern art naturally tends to enhance utilitarian objects, Painter Poor became Potter Poor. He has now thoroughly infused his art with mundane strength. From shaping delicate urns and saucers, he turns cheerfully to designing a series of mosaic tiles for the Byzantine ceiling of the Union Dime Savings Bank in Manhattan, or a bathroom of mellow tiles for modern ablutions...
Near "Crow House," Potter Poor's rude and congenial workshop home, is a purling stream which he has dammed to provide water power for his ceramics apparatus. In the building are his kilns and potter's wheels. Much of "Crow House" was built by its owner. Even the door knobs are of Poor pottery. The Poor hobby: sailing boats...