Artist
Cullen Yates
born Bryan, OH 1866-died Shawnee, PA 1945
- Born
- Bryan, Ohio, United States
- Died
- Shawnee, Pennsylvania, United States
- Active in
- New York, New York, United States
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- American
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Craftsman David “Dave” Drake, enslaved for most of his life, produced uncommonly large ceramic jars in 19th-century South Carolina adorned by his poetic verses
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