Fine General Estate Antiques 2/20/2026
Fri, Feb 20, 2026 01:00PM EST
Lot 177
Vintage Ann Francis "Frantic" Morley Mid Century Studio Art Pottery Large Plaque
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Vintage Ann Francis "Frantic" Morley Mid Century Studio Art Pottery Large Plaque 3.5" height, 13.25" diameter, hand decorated with birds and horses, has very small rim chip otherwise very good condition. This important collection of studio art pottery shows master design and superior glaze and form. We encourage you to view photos carefully for artist signature.
Ann Roberts Morley, 1936-2009, known to many as the artist "Frantic," was born in Pensacola, Florida, the only child of Clotilde DiLustro and John Mushroe Roberts. From an early age, she began to draw under the tutelage of her mother’s brother, Michael DiLustro, a Pensacola portrait painter and New York opera singer. He gave her a little book called “The Color Wheel” which inspired her to learn the intricacies of color mixing. From that point on, she was always “doodling” or drawing or sometimes painting.
After studying at Florida State University, at the age of 20 she married Lieutenant Richard James Morley, a Marine Corps flight student at NAS Pensacola. Together they raised five children, moving from one duty station to the next, except when her husband was overseas and Ann and the children returned to Pensacola. Even during these (Frantic) years her ideas took shape in painted images on canvas, wood, ceramics and furniture.
Widowed at 48, she knew it was time to begin a career as a working artist. The first place to take the early pieces was a little gallery in Mobile, Alabama called “Harmonium.” After that, many other galleries followed. Ann produced thousands of pieces over the next 25 years, ranging from small ceramic items and wooden boxes to small and large acrylic paintings on wood, and furniture.
She rose early each day and worked hard on her many paintings and ceramics, and always in solitude. She was extremely private and very humble about her talent. In spite of this, she found a place as an artist whose work was sold to art lovers in all fifty states, Europe and the Middle East -- and connected her to many gallery owners and collectors, whose friendships she enjoyed.
Condition
Very Good
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