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Two lines of Ellison's traced who arrived in America. John Ellison (1585?- 1660?) was born in Windyedge, Lanark Co., Scotland. He married Ellin Hamilton and came to Virginia around 1622/23. They had two children. The second line traced descends from Robert Ellison (1742-1806) son of William Ellison. He was born in Antrim, Ireland and immigrated to South Carolina. He married Elizabeth Potts and they had nine children. Ellison descendants live throughout the United States.
Adventures in abstract ceramics, from George E. Ohr and Ken Price to Kathy Butterly A comprehensive overview of 20th-century non-representational ceramics from the earliest years of the modernist revolution to the postwar period through to the present, Shapes From Outta Nowherefeatures an unparalleled gathering of over 150 works from New York City-based collector Robert Ellison. It explores the featured artists' rejection of symmetrical, utilitarian forms in clay in favor of the sculptural and abstract, and challenges the boundaries between function, non-function, design, drawing, painting, sculpture and architecture. Built over a period of 40 years, this singular collection reflects the per...
"A classified catalogue of papers from Archaeologia aeliana, 1813-1913", is included in the Centenary volume, ser. 3, v. 10, p. 334-376.
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} At the height of the Arts and Crafts era in Europe and the United States, American ceramics were transformed from industrially produced ornamental works to handcrafted art pottery. Celebrated ceramists such as George E. Ohr, Hugh C. Robertson, and M. Louise McLaughlin, and prize-winning potteries, including Grueby and Rookwood, harnessed the potential of the medium to create an astonishing range of dynamic forms and experimental glazes. Spanning the period from the 1870s to the 1950s, this volume chronicles the history of American art pottery through more than three hundred works in the outstanding collection of Robert A. Ellison J...