Object Details
- Artist
- Dan Anderson, born St. Paul, MN 1945-died Edwardsville, IL 2023
- Luce Center Label
- Dan Anderson's Water Tower Teapot combines rural architecture and ceramics. The teapot resembles an old stone water tower, which reflects Anderson's passion for midwestern landmarks and tools. He seeks to repurpose and elevate this old-fashioned, forgotten tower into a sculptural work of art, in this case through the form of a teapot. Anderson has created various water tower–
- themed pots, cans, and vessels. The stony texture of Water Tower Teapot reflects his attention to surface and detail.
- Luce Object Quote
- "The usefulness of machines in their original states is limited—as the products of progress, they are doomed to obsolescence—but by re-creating them in a 'primitive' medium, I believe they will endure through the ages. They have been transformed for eternity into art." Artist's statement, AKAR Architecture Design
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 1989
- Object number
- 2002.70.1A-C
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Decorative Arts-Ceramic
- Crafts
- Medium
- clay
- Dimensions
- 5 x 7 3/8 x 5 in. (12.8 x 18.8 x 12.7 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Renwick Gallery
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor, 53B
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Architecture Exterior\civic\tower
- Record ID
- saam_2002.70.1A-C
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk72ce4710b-a9d0-425e-939f-14d616febc97
