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Title	Maria Longworth Nichols Pottery
Subject	Arts and Entertainment Ohio Women Storer, Maria Longworth, 1849-1932
Place	Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description	These seven pieces of ceramic art were created by Maria Longworth Nichols. Maria Longworth Nichols (1849-1932) was the daughter of Joseph Longworth, an art collector and patron. Mrs. Nichols' interest in pottery decoration began in the 1870s. She studied china painting with Gustave Hartwig and exhibited her work in Cincinnati and at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. For a time, she conducted under-the glaze techniques at the Frederick Dallas Pottery. In 1880, her father agreed to finance a pottery, which she named "Rookwood" in honor of her father's estate. In the pottery's early years, Nichols produced Japanese-inspired pieces, and Rookwood offered classes in molding and china painting. Students were accepted into these classes on a competitive basis. Members of the Cincinnati Pottery Club were allowed access to the clay and kilns and developed many of the innovative glazing and firing techniques that made the pottery a commercial success. In 1883, Mrs. Nichols hired William Watts Taylor to run the pottery. He reorganized Rookwood and expelled the pottery club. Mrs. Nichols first husband died in 1885; she later married Bellamy Storer, a lawyer and politician. Devoting more energy to her husband's political career, she spent less time at the pottery. After Storer was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, she turned over her share in the pottery to Taylor, who moved the pottery to a new building in Cincinnati's Mt. Adams neighborhood. Mrs. Storer continued to make pottery, however, and introduced bronze elements to her work. In 1902, she won a medal at the Paris Universal Exposition. Although she is primarily known as a ceramic artist, Maria Longworth Nichols Storer was also an active metalworker, painter and author. The first image depicts a vase created circa 1879 which measures 4.5" by 6" (11.43 by 15.24). The second image shows a vase with Tiger Eye Glaze. It measures 3.4" by 6.5" (8.6 by 16.5 cm). The final image shows a collection of items range in size from 4.5" by 7" (11.43 by 17.78) to 7.5" by 10.75" (19 by 27 cm).
Creator	Storer, Maria Longworth, 1849-1932
Date of Original	1879 - 1894 circa
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s)
Submitting Institution	Cincinnati Art Museum
Type	StillImage
Format	picture; objects

Title	Om539_745922_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om539_745922_001.tif
Image Height	539
Image Width	361
File Size	59.906 KB

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