Hand-formed stoneware with stains and glazes, vertical brutalist form with tapered center and flared sunburst top and base, signed at the foot.

16 3/4 in.

From the Estate of the late Patricia J. Shaw, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

John Glick studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art before founding Plum Tree Pottery studio in Detroit, Michigan. Towards the end of the 1960s, his work began to reflect his interest in 18th and 19th-century Japanese art and contemporary Abstract Expressionism. In the 1990s, he made landscape-inspired wall panels.

Glick was revered potter for his body of work, his role as a teacher and mentor, and for innovating studio practices and tools that are widely accepted today. His work is housed in the collections of the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California; the Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa; the Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio; the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California; the Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware; the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan; the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; the Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina; and numerous others.

Good estate condition, minor fleabite losses and firing flaws.