Polia Pillin Pottery List of Credits

Mar 8, 2018

The following is a list of credits, accolades and awards bestowed upon Polia Pillin throughout the years, as listed in her 1966 Booklet "Pillin". It is doubtless that the list is incomplete, but even so it certainly represents a resume to be respected.

Born-- September 1, 1909, Poland
Listed in Who's Who in American Art and Who's Who of American Women

STUDIED
Jewish Peoples Institute
The Studio of Todros Geller
Hull House Art Center, Chicago

MEMBER
San Fransisco Art Association
California Watercolor Society
American Ceramic Society
American Craftsman's Council

MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS
Long Beach Museum
Dallas Art Museum
Syracuse Museum
University of Maine
The A. A. D'Amico Collection
Otis Art Institute
and many other public and private collections

AWARDS
Los Angeles County Art Institute 1948
Syracuse Museum 1951, 1953
Los Angeles County Fair 1951
Los Angeles State Fair 1955, 1957, 1960

ARTICLES AND ILLUSTRATED ESSAYS
Arts and Architecture
The American Artist
The Arts (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Times Home Section
Trace (Los Angeles) Craftsmen of the Southwest Annual
and other periodicals

EXHIBITED
Art Institute of Chicago
San Fransisco Art Museum
Denver Art Museum
Portland Art Museum
Long Beach Art Museum
Otis Art Institute
Cooper Union, New York
University of Illinois
Penn. Academy of Fine Arts
Butler Art Institute
Oakland Art Museum
Los Angeles Art Museum
St. Paul Gallery and School of Art
Pasadena Art Museum
University of Michigan
National Orange Show
Fresno Art League
Scripps College
Ohio University
Mint Museum of Art
Seattle Art Museum
Wichita Art Association
Cincinnati Art Museum
De Young Art Museum
Society of Washington Printmakers
Bradley University Print Annual
Miami National Ceramic Exhibition
Syracuse Museum
and others

ONE-MAN SHOWS
Landau Gallery (Los Angeles)
Ryder Gallery (Los Angeles)
Hilda Swarthe Gallery (Los Angeles)
Art Institute of Chicago
San Fransisco Art Museum
University of Maine
Long Beach Museum
The Little Gallery (Birmingham, Michigan)
Todd Gallery (New York)
Feingarten Galleries (Los Angeles)
Adele Bednarz Gallery (Los Angeles) and others