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architectural decoration,
which was manufactured from
red and white clays found in
Pennsylvania, Maryland and
New Jersey.
Like other American manu-
facturers, Galloway and Graff
perceived the 1876
Philadelphia Centennial
Exposition as an opportunity
to expand its reputation and
its sales nationwide. The com-
pany’s display received the
only commendation awarded
in the field of artistic terracot-
ta. It included vases and urns
copied from examples in The
British Museum, as well as
full-scale replicas of statuary.
The firm’s 1876 catalog
illustrates, among others, the
Apollo Belvedere from the
Vatican Collections, Dancing
Girl by Antonio Canova and
Echo by “Bailly,” otherwise
known as Joseph Alexis Bailly
(1825-1883), a Parisian-born
woodcarver and sculptor
working in Philadelphia, who
taught at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts dur-
ing this period.
From 1875 to 1881, patents
were issued to William
Galloway for such practical
earthenware products as the
1879 “porous refrigerator.” In
1876, perhaps inspired by
copies of ancient Greek vases
displayed in the Danish
Pavilion at the Philadelphia
Centennial Exposition,
Galloway and Graff began to
offer a full line of artistic vases
and plaques based on antique
models that, to judge from the
regular notices published in
the Crockery and Glass Journal,
remained extremely popular
at least through the mid-
1880s. Some of these were
decorated before being sold,
but amateur artists could also
obtain unpainted bisqueware.
Examples of both kinds, some
of which matched illustrations
in the 1876 catalog, were pur-
chased in 1882 by the Women’s
Art Museum Association for
the Cincinnati Art Museum col-
lection (although they were
catalogued by the museum as
a gift in 1881). Alfred Traber
Goshorn (1833-1902), who in
1882 became the museum’s
first director, had previously
served as the director general
of the Centennial Exposition
and admired Galloway and
Graff terracotta. In fact, a ter-
racotta mask, the visage of a
bearded old man in a cloth
cap, is inset above the fire-
place in the original director’s
office of the first Cincinnati Art
Museum building, which was
designed by James McLaughlin
and constructed between 1882
and 1886.
The firm’s physical plant These are various glazed urns made at the Galloway Terra-
was moved to Walnut Street This is a 19th-century terra- Cotta and Pottery Company in Philadelphia. These types of
near 32nd Street in cotta fountain that portrays urns as well as planters were also made from both terracot-
Philadelphia in 1889 and was two small children under an ta and buff earthenware, whereas some forms may have
destroyed by a fire only five umbrella, called “Out in the also been painted white. Some of the urns were also
years later. But when it was Rain,” bearing the maker’s adorned with Italian medallions. Photo courtesy Kamelon
rebuilt on the same site, the mark, “Galloway & Graff, Auctions and Neal Auction Company.
building reportedly included 1725 Market Street. Company in 1911, with Pursuit of Beauty: Americans
some 90,000 square-feet of Philadelphia.” Photo cour-
Galloway’s son, William B., asand the Aesthetic Movement.”
exhibition space in addition to tesy Freeman’s Auction.
president, and continued pro- New York, N.Y.: Rizzoli
the workrooms. Operating
ducing pottery until at least Publishing, 1986.
under the name of William Exposition that year and a
1941. “Galloway Terra-Cotta
Galloway by 1893, the firm’s grand prize at the Saint Louis
Company” 1905 Catalog.
display of ornamental terra- World’s Fair in 1904. The com-
Sources: “United States Centennial
cotta won a first prize at the pany was incorporated as the
Burke, Doreen Bolger. “In International Exhibition,” 1876.
Chicago World’s Columbian Galloway Terra-Cotta

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