Peasant Art
Czech immigrant Joseph Mrazek (1889–1959) came to the United States when he was in his teens. In 1917 he began decorating pottery with Czech folk art designs in his New York City apartment. There was such demand for his work that he rented a ceramics factory in Letovice, his hometown in Czechoslovakia, and in 1925 he built his own pottery there.
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