George Edgar Ohr
Creamer
1902-1906
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George Edgar Ohr
Creamer
1902-1906
Physical Qualities
Glazed earthenware, 3 1/2 x 5 3/8 in. (8.9 x 13.7 cm)
Credit Line
Decorative Arts Acquisitions Endowment established by the Friends of the American Wing, and purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Marianne Hiller
Object Number
2003.138
George Ohr, the self-proclaimed “Mad Potter of Biloxi,” made pottery with paper-thin walls, rippling curves, and crumpled forms. Working from his five-story, pagodashaped store in the tourist town of Biloxi, Mississippi, Ohr used local clay fired in a homemade kiln and painted with his own glazes to craft ceramics which defy practicality and redefine creativity. Ohr professed his ingenuity unabashedly, posting signs in front of his store reading: “UNEQUALED.-UNRIVALED.-UNDISPUTED.-GREATEST.- ART POTTER ON EARTH."
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2003; David Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey
Woven Rainbows: American Indian Trade Blankets
AMW Reinstallation 2014
American Wing Rotations 2020
American Wing Rotations 2021
American Modernism Reinstallation
American Wing Rotations 2023
American Wing Rotations 2024
American Wing Rotations 2025
Markings: Marked with stamped lettering: "GEO. E. OHR./BILOXI MISS."
On View at the BMA
