Milwaukee Art Museum Returns Two Jars to David Drake’s Descendants
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The Milwaukee Art Museum has returned two 19th-century stoneware vessels by Dave (David) Drake to the descendants of the African-American ceramicist under an ownership transfer agreement that allows the objects to be displayed long-term. While the hefty jars serve as examples of ceramic mastery, Drake had also inscribed them with his name and brief poems during a time when Black literacy was criminalized in the antebellum South. “For our family, this agreement is about more than the owner
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