The Artful Teapot 25th November - 5th march 2006

"The Artful Teapot: 20th Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection"
Peabody Essex Museum
Salem, MA, USA
The Artful Teapot: 20th Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection explores the teapot - a nearly universal domestic item - as a vehicle for artistic expression. This comprehensive and highly original exhibition features 250 teapots by over 100 internationally known artists, including Michael Graves, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, George E. Ohr, Cindy Sherman, and Beatrice Wood. The exhibition opens Nov. 25, 2005 and runs through March 5, 2006 at the Peabody Essex Museum.
All of the works in the exhibition have been selected from the celebrated collection of Sonny and Gloria Kamm's personal trove of more than 7,500 teapots. Visiting art galleries and art fairs and commissioning artists to create their own interpretations of the object, the Kamms have together amassed the largest collection of teapots in the United States, possibly the world.

About the exhibition