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George Ohr: Mississippi's Mad Potter |
| Section: THE ARTS / DESIGN |
| Author: Karen S. Chambers |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1990 |
| Size: 1,767 Words, 10,528 Characters |
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"Unequaled. Unrivaled. Undisputed. Greatest Art Potter on
Earth."
These claims, more appropriate to the carnival midway than as a description of a serious artist, are George Edgar Ohr's own, and he believed them. A potter of mundane functional items as well as extraordinary one-of-a-kind works, Ohr frequently traveled to fairs, both the country variety and the world expositions popular at the end of the last century, to sell his wares. Where he set up his wheel beneath such a banner may not have been a carnival midway, but it was still a long way from the galleries and museums where his work now appears, seen by those who agree with Ohr.
A writer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Lyle Saxon, describes a 1922 visit to Ohr's storeroom, four years after his death:
“You are hold...
. . .
...ant [sic] eat what I have in pottery my object is to dispose of the whole collection to one creature or one country!”
Around 1910 Ohr, his health deteriorating, gave up the pottery, and the workshop was turned into the Ohr Boy's Auto Repairing Shop. He died of cancer in 1918 with the belief that "when I am gone, my work will be praised, honored, and cherished. It will come." And it has.
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