About the Artwork
Salad Spoon ("American Modern" Dinnerware)
ca. 1937
Russel Wright (Designer) American, 1904 - 1976 Steubenville Pottery (Manufacturer) American, 1879 - 1960
Glazed stoneware
Overall: 10 3/4 × 2 1/4 × 1 1/4 inches (27.3 × 5.7 × 3.2 cm)
Ceramics
American Art before 1950
Gift of Jerome M. and Patricia Shaw
1986.16.2
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Provenance
Collection of Jerome M. and Patricia Shaw (Orchard Lake, Michigan, USA)
1986-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Hennessey, William J. Russel Wright, American Designer. Cambridge, MA, 1983, pp. 37-45.
Kerr, A. Russel Wright Dinnerware: Designs for the American Table. Paducah, KY, 1985, p. 39 (ill.).
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Russel Wright; Steubenville Pottery, Salad Spoon ("American Modern" Dinnerware), ca. 1937, glazed stoneware. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Jerome M. and Patricia Shaw, 1986.16.2.
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