- Title
- Pitcher
- Date Made
- circa 1948
- Medium
- Plastic
- Dimensions
- 8 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 3 5/8 in. (21.59 x 19.05 x 9.21 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2010.120.1
- Collecting Area
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Curatorial Notes
Many manufacturing businesses emerged following World War II to meet the burgeoning demand for new household goods. In Los Angeles, the plastics producer Burroughs Manufacturing Corporation created brightly colored, low-cost plastic accessories for the home. The innovative aspect of this pitcher is not its design, which resembles glass and ceramic versions produced twenty years earlier, but its material. Company advertisements touted the plastic as inexpensive, lightweight, and unbreakable.
(California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way," 2011-12)
- Selected Bibliography
- Kaplan, Wendy, ed. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011.
- Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013.
- Selected Exhibition History
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
