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Doyle Lane

Weed Pot

1956

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Doyle Lane

Weed Pot

1956

Physical Qualities Ceramic, 1 3/4 × 2 3/8 × 2 3/8 in. (4.4 × 6 × 6 cm.)
Credit Line Art Fund established with exchange funds from gifts of Dr. and Mrs. Edgar F. Berman, Equitable Bank, N.A., Geoffrey Gates, Sandra O. Moose, National Endowment for the Arts, Lawrence Rubin, Philip M. Stern, and Alan J. Zakon
Object Number 2023.240
Ceramic weed pot by Doyle Lane, c. 1962-1976. Glazed earthenware. Elliptical-shaped vase with a small opening designed to showcase a single stem. The thickly-layered double glaze creates a speckled turquoise blue. Weed pots were Lane's signature pieces.
Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2023; David Kordansky Gallery, New York, NY
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Crosscurrents: Works from the Contemporary Collection", Gallery 05, February 26-June 2025.

Inscribed: Incised on bottom: "LANE"

Artist

Doyle Lane

born New Orleans, LA 1923; died Los Angeles, CA 2002
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