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Biloxi, Mississippi
The self-styled ``Biloxi Mud Dauber,'' Mississippi art potter George E. Ohr produced thousands of ceramic pieces that were out of step with their time. Detractors have called them bizarre, crude, even ugly, but his supporters saw Ohr as an eccentric genius, a romantic who staked unexplored aesthetic territory with unprecedented shapes and idiosyncratic glazes, and created a polychromatic spectrum of works. A picaresque rebel with flashing eyes and a long white beard, Ohr deemed these pots his ``mud babies.''
"American born, free and patriotic, blowing my own bugle,
and will tackle the greatest of all great potters in the world,
creating shapes on ceramic wheel."
- George Ohr
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