Artist

Melvin Crocker

born Lula, GA 1959
Media - crocker_michael_melvin.jpg - 89976
Originally photographed by Chuck Rosenak. Image is courtesy of the Chuck and Jan Rosenak research material, 1990-1999, in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Also known as
  • Melvin S. Crocker
Born
Lula, Georgia, United States
Biography

Melvin Crocker followed in the footsteps of his older brothers and began to work with the Georgia pottery families at a young age. Melvin’s talent was for decorating the bodies of the pots that his brother Michael made on the wheel. He commonly molds faces, snakes, fruits, and scenes of Georgia life on the exteriors of the pots, in a fashion that has been identified with Georgia pottery for generations.

Works by this artist (1 item)

Frances Lee Turner, Bulloch Hall, 1934, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1965.18.47
Bulloch Hall
Artist
Date1934
oil on canvas
Not on view