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HOWARD
KOTTLER

Kottler’s work of the 1960s combined unlikely materials such as
fur and ceramics, but his decal plates of the 1970s bolstered his
reputation as a formidable artist and satirist.

Howard Kottler, Madonna Ware Set (Flag Pox, Lincoln in Drag or All Men are Created Equal, Sans Libido, Our Lady
of the Sunflowers), ca. 1968, porcelain plates and fabric pouches, plates: 10 ½ in. diameter; box: 6 ½ x 12 x 12 in.

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Howard Kottler, Cracked Up, 1977,
hand-built earthenware and acrylic,
15 x 11 3⁄8 x 4 in.