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Catalinaware: Pottery & Tile from the Island of Romance - February to August 2008
Here’s a virtual tour of the exhibit for our members. Enjoy!
SFO Airport Museums (the only fully accredited Museum in an airport) displays the largest collection of Catalinaware ever exhibited, alongside related Island imagery, in the United Terminal post security. Special tours may be requested by contacting the museum staff. This exhibition features pottery, tile, and imagery from the collection of Guest Curator Carole Coates and fellow collector Jerry Kunz.
Permission to photograph exhibit and text obtained from the SF Airport Commission
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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
Flowerpots and planters
Another view, showing elevation
Side view, showing concourse
Tuneful pottery
Ocean life
Early Postcard, deck image
Bird Park
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)
Double parrots
Golf carts, popular then as now
Catalina's Birds
Pelicans and Cranes
Vintage Post Card, deck image
Creatures
Lions, and frogs, and Griffons, oh my
Goats, seals, and a bear "Cub"
Cats, dogs, and a Catalina pig?
Side view
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
More smoking accessories
Image of old Pottery Shop (torn down in the 1960s)
Catalina tile tables, Island made iron and wood bases
Close view
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
Close view
The other side
Blended glazes
Catalina Employee glazing pottery, courtesy The Catalina Island Museum
Design Influences
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
Side view
The Monk bookend trifecta, Catalina, Malibu, and Gladding McBean from bottom to top
Side View
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
Tea and Coffee
One side
...and the other
Form and Function
Detail, service pieces
Roger "Bud" Upton
Image of Bud Upton, Courtesy of the Upton Family Collection
Old California, artist painted plates
Another view
Bowls
...and more bowls
Overview showing elevations
Catalina Employees
Candlesticks and votives
...and the rest
...and more still
Deck image, courtesy of the Catalina Island Museum
Lamps
Scout lamps
Custard, Trophy, and St. Catherine's lamp
Olvera Street Catalina Shop, deck image courtesy of the Renton Family Collection
Catalina tile
...and more
Early visitors to the Island
Vases
Closer view
Side view
Right view including bud vases
Handled vases
Right view
Employees inspecting pottery, image courtesy of the Catalina Island Museum
Commemorative Pottery & Tile
Signed Bobby Jones table
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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