Catalinaware: Pottery & Tile from the Island of Romance - February to August 2008
Here’s a virtual tour of the exhibit for our members. Enjoy!
Permission to photograph exhibit and text obtained from the SF Airport Commission
Catalina Exhibit at SFO - CatalinaCollectors.org
Tim Taylor starts off our tour
Catalina Welcome Letter Circa 1930s
A large pair of Cobalt hand coiled oil jars and a Toyon Red Oil Jar stand guard at the beginning of the exhibit
Early Factory. deck image Courtesy of The Catalina Island Museum
A gathering of Moorish plates
Early Catalog shows Moorish plate, Courtesy The Catalina Island Museum
Another view, showing elevation
Side view, showing concourse
Early Postcard, deck image
Painted & glazed plates & coasters
Historic Bird park hand painted signs and "Rosetta Stone" plate identifying artist as S.J. Wigley
Young visitors (do you recognize the girl in the Chinese hat?) to the Bird Park
Iconic vintage Parrot Mural
Toucan mural (a different bird mural shows on all 4 sides of display)
Golf carts, popular then as now
Vintage Post Card, deck image
Lions, and frogs, and Griffons, oh my
Goats, seals, and a bear "Cub"
Cats, dogs, and a Catalina pig?
Vintage postcard, deck image
Catalina artist Maude Chase, personal dinnerware set
Maude and her catch of the day
Ashtrays and Smoking sets
Casino humidor, baseball gloves, & hats
Humidors, ashtrays, and cigar jars
Image of old Pottery Shop (torn down in the 1960s)
Catalina tile tables, Island made iron and wood bases
Deck image, Courtesy of The Catalina Island Museum
Backgammon tile table, original iron base
Individual backgammon tiles and deck image
Renton's patio, deck image courtesy of the Renton Family Collection
Step Vases, Catalina glaze color examples
Catalina Employee glazing pottery, courtesy The Catalina Island Museum
Vintage & Contemporary Tiles, Bauer & Catalina, Malibu & Catalina, and more
Catalina Lucie lily and San Jose Workshops from Texas tile, Malibu and Catalina Moorish plates, Deco, Native American influence and more
The Monk bookend trifecta, Catalina, Malibu, and Gladding McBean from bottom to top
Large forms catch your eye on the way in or out
The building blocks, terra cotta tiles
D.M. Renton, master builder. Image courtesy of the Renton Family Collection
Early examples, marks, and clay colors
Early Eve bookends, pencil tiles, pelican tile
Early promotional deck image, courtesy of The Catalina Island Museum
By Air and Sea
Hamilton Cove airport fragment
Catalina spider-leg Smoke stand and small promotional airplane tile
Hamilton Cove Amphibious Airport, deck image courtesy of The Catalina Island Museum
Image of Bud Upton, Courtesy of the Upton Family Collection
Old California, artist painted plates
Overview showing elevations
Deck image, courtesy of the Catalina Island Museum
Custard, Trophy, and St. Catherine's lamp
Olvera Street Catalina Shop, deck image courtesy of the Renton Family Collection
Early visitors to the Island
Right view including bud vases
Employees inspecting pottery, image courtesy of the Catalina Island Museum
Commemorative Pottery & Tile
Trophy vase and hand painted imagery
Wrigley and Renton at the Country Club, image courtesy of the Renton Family Collection
The exhibit would not be complete without giving credit to Otis and Dorothy Shepard and their iconic art work which graces the exhibit
Guide to the graphic art work, images follow
Luggage tag, supersized. All the following graphic images are spaced at intervals throughout the exhibit, but shown here as a grouping.
Even when it's not crowded people take time to stop and look...and hopefully learn
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