Papers, 1960-2000.

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Papers, 1960-2000.

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The collection includes Dr. Nelson's notes and photographs from his years of research and exhibition curatorship. There is an emphasis on potteries located in the Midwest. Also included are Dr. Nelson's correspondence with collectors and scholars, including Paul Evans, whose papers are at Winterthur (Col. 598), and newsletters from collectors' groups, including the Ceramic Arts Studio Collectors, the Red Wing Collector's Society, and the Haeger Pottery Collectors Association. Many of the photos and slides are identified, but unfortunately, there are a number which are not.

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Haeger Potteries

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Nelson, Marion J.

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Marion John Nelson was an art history professor and a collector of art pottery. He received his degrees from the University of Minnesota, where he also taught. Dr. Nelson's chief interests were Scandinavian art, the arts and crafts of Scandinavian immigrants in the United States, and American art pottery. He wrote or contributed to more than a dozen books, and was curator of more than fifty art and pottery exhibits. Books which he edited or wrote include Norwegian Folk Art: The Migration of a Tr...

Ceramic Arts Studio.

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Red Wing Potteries

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The earliest recorded pottery making in the Red Wing area is credited to a German immigrant named J. Pohl who in 1861 began fashioning crude crocks on his farm. He used the clay deposits on his own property and hand-turned his ware on a treadle wheel. In 1868 W. M. Philleo began manufacturing flower vases in Red Wing using local clay. He manufactured unglazed terra cotta ware until his pottery works burned in 1870. He rebuilt his small factory but ran into financial diff...

Evans, Paul, 1937-

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Paul Evans is an ordained Episcopal priest and co-proprietor of the Anglican Bibliopole, an antiquarian bookshop in Saratoga Springs, New York. He is also a former editor of Western Collector and also of Spinning Wheel, two publications written for antique and collectibles dealers and collectors. In 1974, Evans' book Art Pottery of the United States was published; a second edition followed in 1987. He has also written numerous magazine articles and several chapters for books on art pottery. ...