Henry Varnum Poor (American, 1888–1970)
New City, New York
Plate with Still Life
INV-8460
Henry Varnum Poor (American, 1888–1970)
New City, New York1922–23
Plate with Still Life
Henry Varnum Poor (American, 1888–1970) New City, New York →Modernism20th CenturyCubismplate (general, dish)earthenware
Date
1922–23
Medium
Earthenware (red bodied), slip, colored underglaze decoration, and tin glaze
Dimensions
4 × 21.6 × 21.5 cm (1 5/8 × 8 9/16 × 8 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Logan Purchase Prize
Henry Varnum Poor originally trained as a painter in California but turned to pottery for economic reasons. In his abstracted earthenware decoration, Poor made use of his skills as a draftsman, emphasizing the simplified forms of Modernism to which he was drawn. This plate reveals the artist’s debt to the French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne in its fluid arrangement of forms along the table edge and the flatness of the composition.
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