Large platter by Karl Martz, 1952.
Permanent Collection of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (2025).
46 cm (18 inches) in diameter. Red earthenware with colored slips.
(Body cracked during or shortly after firing.)
Exhibitions:
1953, 19th (or 17th?) National Ceramics Exhibition, Syracuse Museum (selected for national circulation, 1953-54).
1959, DePauw Ceramic Show
1959, Michigan State University
1961, One Artist Show, University of Nebraska
1962, Carnegie Institute of Technology "25 Years of Art in Clay -- USA"
1969, National Invitational, Lang Galleries, Scripps College, California
2007, “Breaking New Ground” Exhibit, Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville, North Carolina
2010, Pictured on page 67 of Clay Times Three - The Tale of Three Nashville, Indiana Potteries by Kathy M. McKimmie.
In 1952, Karl Martz was about seven years into his faculty position
teaching studio ceramic art and ceramic art history at Indiana
University, in the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, a position
that he held until his retirement in 1977. In 1952, he still held the
rank of Instructor, not being promoted to Assistant Professor until
1953-54. His salary for that academic year was
$5,000, paid in ten installments.
Below: Three enlarged details of the front, and the bottom of the platter.
Detail below is enlarged 1.9 fold.
Detail below is enlarged 1.5 fold.
Detail below is enlarged 1.5 fold.
