Pottery we call ¨Red Wing¨ was made by people living in the Town of Red Wing, Minnesota. They had their best art pottery years from 1930 to 1965 when they shifted from handmade to cast pottery.
Molding makes more sense for Art Pottery than the wheel because the classic shapes are totally unsuited for throwing. Red Wingś castware is imitative of classic shapes. It is an excellent vehicle for displaying the berauty of glazes on both Neoclassic and Modern shapes.
Neoclassic includes Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles and are made from 1926 to 1944
Mid Century Modern styles were produced from WWII to 1965 as the style transitioned from the personal and sensuous to the abstract and intellectual.
Art Pottery had and still has a place in the total picture of art in America
“We are right to shorthand it as ´Red Wing´ because as the corporate structures variously formed, merged, and evolved. it was really the town of Red Wing itself’— or, rather its populace—that made the pottery. ”