PISGAH FOREST and NONCONNAH
The Potteries of Walter B. Stephen
By Rodney Henderson Leftwich
Marlin Press 2006

This amply illustrated book is the first ever on the fascinating life and work of the distinguished potter/pioneer Walter B. Stephen (1876 - 1961). Stephen traveled west in a covered wagon as a young boy. His experiences in Nebraska included living in a sod home near the Sioux Indians, seeing the last Buffalo hunts and meeting Bill Cody.

Inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, Stephen and his mother began their first pottery, Nonconnah, near Memphis, Tennessee about 1904. Without prior experience they produced slip-decorated pottery of exceptional merit.

Stephen operated a second Nonconnah pottery in North Carolina before establishing Pisgah Forest Pottery in 1926. Here Stephen explored oriental glazes and forms, pioneered the first crystalline glazes in the south, and developed his cameo decorated wares. Reflective of his early experiences in the west, his cameo scenes included covered wagons, Indian hunts, cabins, fiddlers and other scenes of American folk life. Stephen's artistic creations are appreciated nationally in numerous private and museum collections.

265 pages, color illustrations, price guide and index.

Price: $54.95 plus $3.50 shipping - Total $58.45

Can be ordered direct from:

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Rodney Leftwich
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Mills River, NC 28759
email: artleftwich@yahoo.com
phone: 828-890-3053