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Galloway

Continued from page 4 architectural decoration, which was manufactured from red and white clays found in Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey.

Like other American manufacturers, Galloway and Graff perceived the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition as an opportunity to expand its reputation and its sales nationwide. The company’s display received the only commendation awarded in the field of artistic terracotta. It included vases and urns copied from examples in The British Museum, as well as full-scale replicas of statuary.

The firm’s 1876 catalog illustrates, among others, the Apollo Belvedere from the Vatican Collections, Dancing Girl by Antonio Canova and Echo by “Bailly,” otherwise known as Joseph Alexis Bailly (1825-1883), a Parisian-born woodcarver and sculptor working in Philadelphia, who taught at the Pennsylvania

Academy of the Fine Arts during this period. From 1875 to 1881, patents were issued to William Galloway for such practical earthenware products as the 1879 “porous refrigerator.” In 1876, perhaps inspired by copies of ancient Greek vases displayed in the Danish Pavilion at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, Galloway and Graff began to offer a full line of artistic vases and plaques based on antique models that, to judge from the regular notices published in the Crockery and Glass Journal, remained extremely popular at least through the mid1880s. Some of these were decorated before being sold, but amateur artists could also obtain unpainted bisqueware. Examples of both kinds, some of which matched illustrations in the 1876 catalog, were purchased in 1882 by the Women’s Art Museum Association for the Cincinnati Art Museum collection (although they were catalogued by the museum as a gift in 1881).

Goshorn (1833-1902), who in 1882 became the museum’s first director, had previously served as the director general of the Centennial Exposition and admired Galloway and Graff terracotta. In fact, a terracotta mask, the visage of a bearded old man in a cloth cap, is inset above the fireplace in the original director’s office of the first Cincinnati Art Museum building, which was designed by James McLaughlin and constructed between 1882 and 1886.

The firm’s physical plant was moved to Walnut Street near 32nd Street in Philadelphia in 1889 and was destroyed by a fire only five years later. But when it was rebuilt on the same site, the building reportedly included some 90,000 square-feet of exhibition space in addition to the workrooms. Operating under the name of William Galloway by 1893, the firm’s display of ornamental terracotta won a first prize at the Chicago World’s Columbian

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This is a 19th-century terracotta fountain that portrays two small children under an umbrella, called “Out in the Rain,” bearing the maker’s mark, “Galloway & Graff, 1725 Market Street. Philadelphia.” Photo courtesy Freeman’s Auction.

Exposition that year and a grand prize at the Saint Louis World’s Fair in 1904. The company was incorporated as the Galloway Terra-Cotta

These are various glazed urns made at the Galloway TerraCotta and Pottery Company in Philadelphia. These types of urns as well as planters were also made from both terracotta and buff earthenware, whereas some forms may have also been painted white. Some of the urns were also adorned with Italian medallions. Photo courtesy Kamelon Auctions and Neal Auction Company.

Company in 1911, with Galloway’s son, William B., as president, and continued producing pottery until at least 1941.

Sources:

Burke, Doreen Bolger. “In

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Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement.” New York, N.Y.: Rizzoli Publishing, 1986.

“Galloway Terra-Cotta Company” 1905 Catalog.

“United States Centennial International Exhibition,” 1876.

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