Art and Reform: Sara Galner, the Saturday Evening Girls, and the Paul Revere Pottery

The handmade ceramics of the Paul Revere Pottery, often enlivened with stylized images of animals, flowers or abstract patterns, are best known today by the name of the girls' club whose members... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878467165
• ISBN13: 9780878467167
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: MFA Publications
• Length: 103 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Sara Galner

I was at a loss as to what to title this review. All I really want to say is that I'm grateful to the author for identifying Sara Galner and giving her the credit and respect she so richly deserves. She could very well have been lost in archives and known only to her children and grandchildren. She sounds like a remarkable woman and her progeny bear that out. It is a pity she decided to give up her career, but we still have the items she did make to enjoy and her choice is not really ours to judge. On the Subject of Helen Starrow, I'd like to point out that she was in no way a "Boston Brahmin." She was born in central New York to David M. and Eliza Wright Osborne. Her father was the owner of a highly successful farm machinery company. Her mother was the daughter of Martha Coffin Wright and her great-aunt was Lucretia Coffin Mott. Mrs. Starrow's views of women were no aberration in her family. Her belief in the equal rights of women were taught to her by the two women who are most responsible for the creation of the women's rights movement. Mrs. Starrow's support of the SEG would have been a very natural inclination. Like her brother, Thomas Mott Osborne, the noted penal reformer and founder of the Mutual Welfare League, she believed in the essential goodness and capability of everyone. The motto of the Mutual Welfare League was "Do Good, Make Good" and I think that in many respects Sara Galner and the other women from the SEG were doing just that.

Superb!

This is a superb book! A great read and a wonderful story combining art and social history! Boston Museum of Fine Arts curator and catalog author Nonie Gadsden has done an excellent job documenting the story of Sara Galner and the activities of this early 20th Century social program involving Jewish and Italian immigrant women. One extremely positive article/review very striking to me about the catalog/book is entitled "Pottery Against Poverty"- which helps explain the mission of Boston society benefactor Helen Storrow in supporting the library club the Saturday Evening Girls and then helping create from that the Paul Revere Pottery.

A rare opportunity to understand the revitalization of the Arts and Crafts movement

ART & REFORM: SARA GALNER, THE SATURDAY EVENING GIRLS, AND THE PAUL REVERE POTTERY charts arts and crafts and pottery movements alike, surveying museum holdings in both black and white and color and supplementing identifying descriptions with an introduction explaining the work celebrates a fine gift made by Dr. David Bloom and friends of over a hundred ceramics from the Paul Revere Pottery of the Saturday Evening Girls Club of Boston. This volume offers not only a catalog, but a rare opportunity to understand the revitalization of the Arts and Crafts movement and its contributions: art libraries at the college level will welcome it.