Artist
Richard Shaw(American, born 1941)American, born 1941
CultureAmerican
Titles
- In the Family Way
Date1980
PlaceUnited States
MediumPorcelain
DimensionsOverall: 37 × 10 × 12 in. (94 × 25.4 × 30.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Leatrice S. and Melvin B. Eagle Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment
Object number2010.2133
Not on view
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Department
Decorative Arts, Craft, and DesignSpecial Collections
Object Type
Exhibition History"New Ceramics," Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, December 6, 1980–2 January 2, 1981.
"Richard Shaw: Selected Sculpture," George Adams Gallery, New York, 1998.
"Three Decades of West Coast Ceramics, 1956–1986," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 23–June 30, 2013.
"Beyond Craft: Decorative Arts from the Leatrice S. and Melvin B. Eagle Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 23–May 26, 2014; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, September 6, 2014–February 22, 2015; Canton Museum of Art, Ohio, August 27–October 25, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Impressed on golf club "foot": First Lady / Louise Suggs / 71[illegible number]
Painted on tomato can "head": WHOLESALE & / NUTRITIOUS / NET WT. 28 OZ... [and other illegible text, see images]
Painted on the lid of the tube of paint on the base: H
Ceramic cards on torso with standard numbers and letters ("J / J [upsidedown]" "6 / 6 [upsidedown]" "A / A [upsidedown]", etc.)
Painted on tomato can "head": WHOLESALE & / NUTRITIOUS / NET WT. 28 OZ... [and other illegible text, see images]
Painted on the lid of the tube of paint on the base: H
Ceramic cards on torso with standard numbers and letters ("J / J [upsidedown]" "6 / 6 [upsidedown]" "A / A [upsidedown]", etc.)
No apparent signature.
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Richard T. Notkin
1979
Porcelain
2007.994
