This catalogue celebrates Sidney Swidler's gift of more than 800 pieces of contemporary clay to the Crocker Art Museum. Focusing on the vessel, the Sydney Swidler Collection is a survey of the production of more than 300 artists. It spans the work of leading figures in the twentieth-centurystudion movement from Karen Karnes to Ewen Henderson and beyond. It is also forward looking, including examples from mid-career and emerging artists who are now shaping new chapters on clay.
Swidler, who began collectin in the 1980s, not expecting to become a collector. In time, he developed a thoughtful, personal approach to collecting, realizing that, he had to limit himself somehow, so he decided everything had to have at least a vessel form...to have started out as a pot, at least, in the potter's mind. The Creative Arts League of Sacramento has been instrumental in the exhibition of the Sydney Swidler Collection at the Crocker Art Museum.
Swidler, who began collectin in the 1980s, not expecting to become a collector. In time, he developed a thoughtful, personal approach to collecting, realizing that, he had to limit himself somehow, so he decided everything had to have at least a vessel form...to have started out as a pot, at least, in the potter's mind. The Creative Arts League of Sacramento has been instrumental in the exhibition of the Sydney Swidler Collection at the Crocker Art Museum.