Rookwood and the American Indian blends anthropology with art history to reveal the relationships between the white settlers and the Native Americans in general, between Cincinnati and the American Indian in particular, and ultimately between Rookwood artists and their Indian friends.
Deputy director of curatorial affairs at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Anita J. Ellis is the author of Rookwood Pottery: The Glorious Gamble, which won the Florence Roberts Head Book of the Year Award, and Rookwood Pottery: The Glaze Lines. Susan Labry Meyn is a consulting ethnologist and an adjunct professor at Northern Kentucky University and the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, and the author of numerous articles and a book, More Than Curiosities: A Grassroots History of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, 1920–1942.
“Whether for collectors of pottery, students of art, or those
interested in Native Americans, Rookwood and the American Indian is
well worth a place on a personal or institutional bookshelf.“
*Ohioana Quarterly*
“A fascinating look at how Cincinnati’s European-American
population negotiated their relationship with Native Americans….
This examination of the range of conditions surrounding the
production of these works of art add new layers of understanding to
this art form and the many societies of which it was part and makes
Rookwood and the American Indian an absorbing read.”
*Ohio History*
"Whether for collectors of pottery, students of art, or those
interested in Native Americans, Rookwood and the American Indian is
well worth a place on a personal or institutional bookshelf." *
Ohioana Quarterly *
"A fascinating look at how Cincinnati's European-American
population negotiated their relationship with Native Americans....
This examination of the range of conditions surrounding the
production of these works of art add new layers of understanding to
this art form and the many societies of which it was part and makes
Rookwood and the American Indian an absorbing read." * Ohio
History *
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