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A. R. Cole Arthur Ray (AR) Cole (1892 to 1974), son of Ruffin Cole and brother to Charlie (CC) Cole, worked in his father’s pottery shop in Seagrove, North Carolina, from 1915 to 1925. He left to open his own shop, Rainbow Pottery, an active commercial enterprise from 1926 to 1941. Cole established Rainbow Pottery in Steeds, North Carolina, but later moved it to Sanford on US 1, the tourist highway linking New York [...] Click here to continue reading. Jean Maurice Eugene Clement Cocteau (1889-1963) The French poet, writer, artist, and film maker Jean Maurice Eugene Clement Cocteau was born to a wealthy family on July 5, 1889 in a small town near Paris, France. Cocteau’s father committed suicide when he was about 10 years old. In 1900, he entered a private school and was expelled in 1904. After his expulsion from school, Cocteau ran away to Marseilles where he lived in [...] Click here to continue reading. Charles Walter Clewell Americans in the early 20th century liked their art pottery oxidized. Style leaders included Herman Markham who developed remarkable bronze look-alikes and Samuel Weller whose verdigris frogs and fountains were immensely popular. Possibly the entire matte green craze could be linked to this preference for a flat, dead, metallic glaze. Charles Walter Clewell (1876 to 1965) took the fad a giant step forward by developing a still secret technique for completely [...] Click here to continue reading. Grace T. Chino (1929-1994) Grace Chino was a well respected potter who believed that “each pot should ‘decide’ which design is most appropriate” (Schaaf 2002: 89). Her work can be seen at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, and at the Albuquerque Museum. Chino has also been published in American Indian Art Magazine (1999: 19) and Dillingham (1992: 206-208) and has taken many first place ribbons at Indian Market. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. Charles Meigh Charles Meigh, active 1835 to 1851, made salt-glaze jugs and similar teapots at the Old Hall Pottery at Hanley in the Staffordshire region of England. Their high gothic design is consider to epitimize the Gothic Revival movement that began in England in the 1750′s and continued for more than a century into the 1870′s. Charles Fergus Binns is commonly referred to as “The Father of American Studio Ceramics” and many of his students referred to him as “Daddy” Binns. This title reflects not only his creation of unique, virtuous stoneware pots in the Arts & Crafts style, but also acknowledges his accomplishments of bringing vital information about ceramic clay bodies and glaze recipes to students and lay persons, thereby laying the foundation for the flourishing studio ceramics movement [...] Click here to continue reading. Aaron Bohrod (1907 – 1992) Aaron Bohrod was known for a range of work in watercolor and gouache that included realist figures in cityscapes, landscapes, Surrealism, and trompe l’oeil painting, Aaron Bohrod spent his early career in Chicago, where he was born. In 1948, he moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he became a long-time a member of the art faculty and satisfied the inclinations of many artists who leaned towards European-influenced modernism. In this [...] Click here to continue reading. Brule Parfum Brule parfum is a French term coming into common usage in the late nineteenth century for what had previously known as a cassolette. Cassolettes are small braziers in which aromatic materials could be burned or liquids evaporated. While made from a wide variety of materials, cassolettes were either designed as essence vessels for liquids or perfume burners for solids. Vessels made from fragile materials, like porcelain, frequently were supplied with metal liners. [...] Click here to continue reading. The Arts & Crafts Movement The principles of the Arts and Crafts movement were initially frontiered in England through the efforts of John Ruskin and William Morris. Ruskin was not a craftsman but an academic scholar at Oxford. He believed passionately that the Industrial Revolution would erode the English countryside by turning it into factory fields while relegating the skilled English craftsman to the status of a laborer. The battle cry of his movement, [...] Click here to continue reading. Theophilus A. Brouwer Theophilus A. Brouwer Jr. (1864 to 1932) operated highly unorthodox one-man pottery shops on Long Island, New York, from 1893 to 1911. His greatest and most enduring achievement was fire painting, a method that involved exposing glazed biscuit-fired wares directly to the intense heat of an open furnace. After rotating and positioning a piece for as little as 17 minutes, Brouwer removed it with tongs and let it cool in the [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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