Speckled tan bowl with blue dashes

Jerome Ackerman, studio ceramic, marked on the foot.

Round bowl in a sandy, heavily speckled glaze with a dark brown rim that breaks into drips. Broad blue-gray brush dashes wrap the exterior; the interior is the same speckled field without the blue. 

Dimensions: Height: 3.5 in (8.89 cm)Diameter: 7.38 in (18.75 cm)

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.