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Announcing an Opportunity to Purchase the Beatrice Wood Masterwork
from the
Studio Potter 20th Anniversary Collection

Beatrice Wood Blue-Green Luster Ceramic Chalice.
Price: S O L D
Sale to Benefit The Studio Potter Foundation

Description:
Earthenware bowl, 10" wide, 9" high.
Blue-green luster matt glaze on inside of bowl, outside of bowl, and on 3" pedestal foot. Red earthenware clay, wheel-thrown, thinly potted with throwing marks visible on inside of bowl. Twelve modeled figures completely surround the outside of the bowl, each figure standing with raised arms, and facial features clearly delineated. Figures also have facial features scratched onto bodies. Marks on bottom: B154, NWD 249 (ink).

Biography: Beatrice Wood was born in San Francisco, 1893, and died in Ojai, California, 1998. Wood's interest in ceramics was aroused in 1933 when she purchased a set of six luster plates. She wanted to produce a matching teapot, and it was suggested that she make one at the pottery classes of the Hollywood High School. About 1938 she studied with Glen Lukens at the University of Southern California, and in 1940 with the Austrian potters Gertrud and Otto Natzler. She remembers: "I was not a born craftsman. Many with natural talent do not have to struggle, they ride on easy talent and never soar. But I worked and worked, obsessed with learning." Since then, Wood developed a personal and uniquely expressive art form with her lusterwares. It was during the artist's nineties that Wood produced some of her finest work including her now signature works: tall complex, multivolumed chalices in glittering golds, greens, pinks and bronzes. In 1987 she was made a fellow of both the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts and the American Craft Council, which also gave her their gold medal on her 100th birthday. In 1984 she was made a "Living Treasure of California." In 1985 Wood published her autobiography, I Shock Myself. She continued to write, publishing many books including Touching Certain Things, The Thirty-Third Wife of the Maharaja, and Playing Chess with the Heart. In 1993 she was the subject of an award winning film Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada.
-Bio Courtesy The Garth Clark Gallery

If interested in purchasing this piece, please contact:
Gerry Williams
The Studio Potter Foundation
P.O. Box 70
Goffstown, New Hampshire 03045
Or call: 603-774-3582

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