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Catalinaware:Pottery and Tile from the Island of Romance On View at SFO
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SF-08-06
Catalinaware: Pottery and Tile from the Island of Romance On View at SFO
SAN FRANCISCO -- Catalinaware: Pottery and Tile from the Island of Romance, a new exhibition at San Francisco International Airport, presents a retrospective of works by the Catalina Island Pottery and Tile Factory, which flourished on California’s Santa Catalina Island from 1927 to 1937. The exhibition features approximately 250 objects including dinnerware, decorative tiles, vases, urns, lamps, tile-top tables, and novelties made during the factory’s ten-year existence.
Catalina Island Pottery and Tile Factory began as a practical endeavor to build the Island’s resort town of Avalon with bricks and roofing tiles made from local clay deposits while providing year-round work for its residents. As the range of Catalina’s products broadened to include gifts and souvenirs for visitors, the Island enterprise attracted skilled painters, designers and ceramicists such as Maude Chase and Roger Moulton “Bud” Upton.
The objects contained in the exhibition exemplify Catalinaware’s distinctive style, in particular the influences of the local landscape, California’s Spanish Colonial history, and the vivid color palette of California’s closest neighbor, Mexico. Many featured objects -such as the cowboy-hat shaped ashtrays and cactus-shaped salt and pepper shakers - also reflect Catalina’s artists’ wit and ingenuity.
The exhibition features Catalina tile and pottery from the collections of guest curator Carole Coates and fellow collector Jerry Kunz.
Images from the exhibition are available at http://www.flysfo.com/web/page/about/news/pressres/exh-catalina.html.
Catalinaware: Pottery and Tile from the Island of Romance is located post-security in Boarding Area F, and is on view to passenger ticketed for travel through Terminal 3 until August 24, 2008. There is no charge to view the exhibition.
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