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Connie Andersen

Biography to Display: 

Connie Andersen works collaboratively with her husband Robert Andersen to produce functional stoneware pottery, decorated with impressed farm and agriculture motifs. A common vessel form is the mug.

Surface techniques include the use of found wood, metal and plastic objects to impress surface motifs.  Vessel interiors are left unglazed. Robert and Connie are co-designers. Robert throws and begins the decorative process. Connie Andersen handles glazing.

Robert and Connie Andersen run Sunflower Pottery in Kalona, Iowa.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Public Collections to Display: 

Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, Iowa

 

WEBSITE(S):

sunflowerpottery.com

Artist's Studio: Sunflower Pottery

 

Typical Marks

“Andersen” signature on base, edged into wet clay often with date

Response from Sunflower Pottery:

Three markings are used. Two marks are used on mugs usually applied at the base of the handle. The first is an A for Andersen and the other is a Sunflower.  A third mark, a signature and the year it was made on the bottom of the pieces.

(no photos available of the sunflower pottery)

Tureen
Date: 1984
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown, Assembled, Hand-Built
Surface Technique: Glaze, Impressed, Stamped
Brunnier Art Museum, gift of Lynette and John Pohlman, um2015.128ab
Photo: Brunnier
Brunnier Art Museum, gift of Lynette and John Pohlman, um2015.128ab
Photo: Brunnier
Photo: Brunnier
Photo: Brunnier
1984
Tureen
Date: 1997
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown, Hand-Built
Dimensions: 2.9" x 4.9" x 4.9", 3" x 5.5" x 5.5"
Surface Technique: Glaze, Impressed, Incised, Sprig
Brunnier Art Museum, gift of Drs. David G. Topel and Jay-lin Jane Topel, um2016.258ab
Photo: Brunnier
Brunnier Art Museum, gift of Drs. David G. Topel and Jay-lin Jane Topel, um2016.258ab
Photo: Brunnier
Photo: Brunnier
1997
Turreen
Date: 1996
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown
Dimensions: lid 3" x 4.9" x 4.9" base 2.2" x 5.75" x 5.75"
Surface Technique: Glaze, Sprig, Stamped
Brunnier Art Museum, gift of Drs. David G. Topel and Jay-lin Jane Topel, accession no. um2016.257ab
Photo: Brunnier
Brunnier Art Museum, gift of Drs. David G. Topel and Jay-lin Jane Topel, accession no. um2016.257ab
Photo: Brunnier
Photo: Brunnier
Platter
Date: 1989
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown
Dimensions: 15" x 15"
Surface Technique: Glaze
Brunnier Art Museum,, gift of Rae Reilly, 2019.31
Photo: Brunnier
Brunnier Art Museum,, gift of Rae Reilly, 2019.31
Photo: Brunnier
Tureen
Date: 1986
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown
Surface Technique: Glaze
Brunnier Art Museum, gift of Drs. David G. Topel and Jay-lin Jane Topel, 2015.129ab
Photo: Brunnier
Brunnier Art Museum, gift of Drs. David G. Topel and Jay-lin Jane Topel, 2015.129ab
Photo: Brunnier
1986
Platter
Date: 1991
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Slab-Built
Dimensions: 1.1" x 14.7" x 9.75"
Surface Technique: Glaze, Stamped
Brunnier Art Museum, gift of Drs. David G. Topel and Jay-lin Jane Topel, 2016.259
Photo: Brunnier
Brunnier Art Museum, gift of Drs. David G. Topel and Jay-lin Jane Topel, 2016.259
Photo: Brunnier
1991
Plate
Date: 1999
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown
Dimensions: 1.5" x 2.8"
Surface Technique: Glaze, Sprig
Brunnier Art Museum, gift of Drs. David G. Topel and Jay-lin Jane Topel, 2016.262
Photo: Brunnier
Brunnier Art Museum, gift of Drs. David G. Topel and Jay-lin Jane Topel, 2016.262
Photo: Brunnier
1999

Citation: Beul, Jasmine. "The Marks Project." Last modified September 18, 2023. http://www.themarksproject.org:443/node/5294

TAGS

America Folk Art Museum, thrown, stoneware, impressed motifs, Brunnier Art Museum, University of Northern Iowa