Incised grid Pot

Jerome Ackerman, studio ceramics.

Dimensions: Height: 6 in (15.24 cm)Diameter: 5 in (12.7 cm)

Tapered cup with a rust rim and a black body scored in a white-filled grid—squares, triangles, and a few pinched dots in the clay. The interior is a dry, speckled buff. Compact, architectural, and from the late studio period.

Jerome Ackerman (1920–2019) was a California modernist potter and designer. Trained at Wayne State and at Alfred University (MFA, 1952), he and his wife Evelyn moved to Los Angeles and founded Jenev Design Studio, later ERA Industries. Their ceramics, mosaics, tapestries, and woodcarvings helped define postwar West Coast modernism. After years running the business, Jerry returned to the wheel in the late 1980s, making reduction-fired stoneware. These later studio pieces are signed ACKERMAN on the foot.