ABSTRACT
Oscar Lovell Triggs was an instructor in English at the University of Chicago from 1895 to 1903. Triggs was the author of several books and edited an 1892 edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. The Rookwood Pottery that Triggs in this text was founded in 1880 in Cincinnati, Ohio, by gifted china painter Maria Longworth Nichols. The Rookwood Pottery went on to be one of the most successful producers of Art Pottery in the United States, winning international acclaim at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle and winning more medals at later world’s fairs. Three factors evidently conspire to make the Rookwood Pottery what it is—the founder, the workmen, and the public. By means of lectures, and other entertainments at the pottery, the public participates in some degree in the enterprise, and by reaction shapes the product. Here are all the elements needed for the ideal workshop—a self-directing shop, an incidental school of craft, and an associative public.
