Martin Eidelberg

Gifts from the Fire is an illustrated history that highlights the diversity and innovation of American ceramics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as artists responded to historical precedents and emerging modernist styles around the world. Between the early 1880s and the early 1950s, pioneering American artists drew upon the rich traditions and recent innovations of European and...

This catalogue celebrates Dr. Martin Eidelberg's donation of European art pottery to the Saint Louis Art Museum. This beautiful book begins with an introduction to European art pottery between 1880 and 1914, followed by a plate section featuring the gifted works grouped by country of origin. Each group starts with a brief prologue describing pottery production in that region around...