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CHICAGO'S FIRST ART POTTER The Pauline of "Pauline Pottery": Who was Pauline Jacobus? Pauline Jacobus, the wife of a Chicago merchant of the 1880s, was an accomplished painter of porcelain before she decided to try her hand at crafting and decorating the very first art pottery in Chicago in 1883. She was the artistic "brains" behind the firm that came to be known as "Pauline Pottery" (which moved to Edgerton, Wisconsin in 1888). Although the move to Edgerton allowed the firm to expand (with 40 hands during its most active phase), the 1893 death of Pauline Jacobus' husband, businessman Oscar, and the simultaneous financial panic that spread across America that same year, doomed the struggling art pottery company. A studio phase of the pottery continued until Jacobus' rural Edgerton home, "The Bogart," was destroyed in an fire July 1911. Jacobus died decades later at a Dousman, Wisconsin, retirement home, neglected and forgotten. Largely at the instigation of Ori-Anne Pagel, formerly an Edgerton art and antiques dealer, a large collection (over 40 pieces) of Pauline Pottery (and other Edgerton art clays) went on permanent display in a museum located in the former Edgerton 1906 train depot in August 2005. The Collection is owned by The Arts Council of Edgerton co-founded by Ori-Anne Pagel. She also wrote a book tiltled PAULINE POTTERY a pictorical supplement to Edgerton's history in clay publised through the Arts Council of Edgerton. For examples and more information go the the Wisconsin Pottery Association website. |
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