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Ash Pot by David Ellsworth

Currency:USD Category:Art / Medium - Sculptures Start Price:100.00 USD
Ash Pot by David Ellsworth
All items in this auction were created, at least in part, on the wood lathe, with wood as the primary material. All are one-of-a-kind signed originals, individually created by the artist listed.
Lot #: 130
Ash Pot
Black Ash Burl
8"hx 10" x 9"

David Ellsworth
Pennsylvania, United States

Over the past forty years, David Ellsworth has become known as one of the premier designers of turned wooden vessel forms. His work is included in the permanent collections of forty-one museums and numerous private collections. He is a Fellow and former Trustee of the American Craft Council and has received fellowship awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, and the PEW Fellowship for the Arts.
In 2009 he was elected by the James A. Renwick Alliance of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. to receive the prestigious “Master of the Medium” award in wood. He is the recipient of Lifetime Membership Award from the American Association of Woodturners and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Collectors of Wood Art. He runs his own private school of woodturning at his home and studio in Buck’s County, Pennsylvania.

Estimated retail: $5,000