Tom Folk
The Allegory of Europa in Twentieth-Century American Sculpture

Ceramics in America 2016

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  • Figure 1
    Figure 1

    Russell Aitken, Wyoming Europa, 1939. Glazed earthenware. H. 12". (Private collection; photo, Randl Bye.)

  • Figure 2
    Figure 2

    Tile mosaic, Europa Abducted by Zeus Transformed into Bull, Byblos, Lebanon. Roman era, 3rd century A.D.  (De Agostini Picture Library, G. Dagli Orti, Bridgeman Images.)

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    Figure 3

    Maerten de Vos (1532–1603), The Rape of Europa, ca. 1590. Oil on oak panel. 52 5/8" x 68 11/16". (Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain, Bridgeman Images.)

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    Figure 4

    D. Gerolina, (left) Europe and Asia and (right) America and Africa, England, ca. 1807. Reverse painting on glass. 14" x 10". (Private collection.)

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    Figure 5

    Candlestick depicting Europa and the Bull, Charles Gouyn’s Factory, London, England, 1750–1760. Soft-paste porcelain. H. 7 11/16". (© Victoria and Albert Museum, London.)

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    Figure 6

    Carl Milles, Europa and the Bull, Study for Large Fountain, 1926. Bronze. H. 31". (Cranbrook Foundation, gift of George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth; archive photo, courtesy Cranbrook Art Museum.)

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    Figure 7

    Paul Manship, Europa and the Bull, 1924. Bronze. H. excluding marble base 9 1/2". (© Christie’s Images Limited 2016.)

  • Figure 8
    Figure 8

    Paul Manship, Europa, for the Cowan Pottery Studio, Rocky River, Ohio, ca. 1928. Earthenware with “terra cotta” glaze. H. 15". (Cowan Pottery Museum, Rocky River Public Library.)

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    Figure 9

    Cranbrook brochure, 1932, showing Waylande Gregory’s Girl with Olive, 1932.

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    Figure 10

    Waylande Gregory, Europa and the Bull, ca. 1934. Earthenware. H. 23". (Everson Museum of Art, museum purchase.)

  • Figure 11
    Figure 11

    Valerie (“Vally”) Wieselthier, Europa and the Bull, 1938. Glazed earthenware. H. 25". (Private collection; photo, Randl Bye.)

  • Figure 12
    Figure 12

    Viktor Schreckengost, The Abduction, 1938. Glazed earthenware. H. 14". (Viktor Schreckengost Foundation.)

  • Figure 13
    Figure 13

    Russell Aitken, Europa, ca. 1935, glazed earthenware. Dimensions unrecorded. (Collection unknown; photo from Time, October 18, 1937.)

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    Figure 14

    Charles (“Chuck”) Yerkes Dusenbury, Europa and the Bull, 1940. Glazed earthenware. H. 14". (Cranbrook Art Museum, gift of the artist.)