Slotin Folk Art Auction – Folk Pottery, Quilts & Native American Art
February 11 & 12 at 10 am
www.slotinfolkart.com
404 403-4244

BUFORD, GA. — Slotin Folk Art Auction’s first standalone pottery sale in 2020 was a trial balloon to see if collectors would respond, and they most assuredly did. Now, with its fourth edition taking place February 11-12, the auction is expanding in more ways than one. The single-day Pottery Extravaganza is bigger for 2023 and is sprouting a second-day sale dedicated to Native American art, quilts and Americana.

There are 461 pottery lots, covering a wide geography and timespan, on the first day; with Day Two featuring 301 lots, including everything from Cherokee baskets and Native American ceramics to quilts and antique weathervanes.

Steve Slotin said staying open to new possibilities and keeping definitions fluid has well served the auction house he operates with wife Amy. “Slotin Auction continues to broaden the horizon and umbrella of folk and self-taught, and this sale really showcases original art that is not mass-produced but is personal and some of it utilitarian and some of it historic and historical,” Slotin said.

It doesn’t hurt that the auction house is in the heart of the Southeast, where “we have a huge wealth of art to be discovered,” he added. “So, if it’s Southern folk pottery or Cherokee baskets or African American quilts, the Southeast is rich with art and artisans, and we won’t pigeonhole anybody. We will let the art stand for what it is, which is amazing American art.”

The pottery offerings again center on Southern folk pieces, with an especially strong showing of work from 1850s to 1950s trailblazers. Noteworthy names include Thomas Chandler, Columbus Jackson Becham (aka CJB), Daniel Seagle and his son James Franklin Seagle and Thomas Ritchie. There are many tempting early anonymous pieces, as well.

Southern folk potters from the mid-Twentieth Century forward include Lanier Meaders, Michael and Melvin Crocker, Billy Ray Hussey and Clint Alderman.

Pottery traditions from other areas of the United States — including salt-glazed (and cobalt-decorated) wares from New England and redware from Pennsylvania — add to the mix.

Contemporary studio pottery is featured as well, including makers Mark Hewitt of North Carolina and University of Georgia emeritus pottery professor Ron Meyers.

The sale’s second day brings a heavy focus on Native American art starting with Cherokee baskets, including work by one of the best-known proponents, Rowena Bradley. Queen of the double-woven rivercane technique, Bradley dyed her creations with native roots and bark such as butternut, black walnut and bloodroot.

Most of the sale’s Native American lots are drawn from the collections of the long-shuttered Museum of the American Indian in Cherokee, N.C., and from Atlantan Jet Lacoss.

The quilts that conclude the two-day sale include contemporary works from the Hunter collection, as well as traditional and African American quilts drawn from other collections.

The firm’s major 2023 auctions include the spring Self-Taught Art Masterpiece Sale, April 22-23; and fall Self-Taught Art Masterpiece Sale, November 11-12.

Slotin Folk Art Auction is at 112 East Shadburn Avenue. For information, 404-403-4244 or www.slotinfolkart.com

Lanier Meaders
Mark Hewitt
Daniel Goodwin
Ledger Drawings
Plains Indian
Salt Glazed Wedding Jug
Columbus Jackson Becham
Owens Family Pottery
Lucille Lossiah
Rachel Aragon Acoma Pot
George Ohr
Thomas Ritchie
Rob Pulleyn
Cherokee Baskets
Anna Fields Archuleta
Thomas Chandler
Nelson Bass
Daniel Seagle
Cherokee Baskets
Charmae Shields Nateseway
Michael Crocker
John Goodman
Early Utilitarian Ware
Rowena Bradley
Early Native Am Pottery
B.B. Craig
Early PA Redware Collection
Edwin Meaders
Ledger Drawings
Walter Howato
Caroline Manheimer
Traditional Quilt Collection
Alice Wiley – Cont. Quilts
African Am. Quilts
Sue Turnquist
Strip Quilt