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  Selected Contemporary Ceramicists Represented in SI Collections
 
 

 

Many contemporary ceramic artists are represented in the Smithsonian's collections. Information about some of them may be found in the publications listed here.

Charles Fergus Binns

Carney, Margaret. Charles Fergus Binns: The Father of American Studio Ceramics: Including a Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the International Museum of Ceramic Art, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, 1998.

Shoji Hamada

Hamada, Shoji. The Quiet Eye: Pottery of Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach. Monterey, CA: Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, 1990.

Leach, Bernard. Hamada: Potter. Tokyo; New York: Kodansha International; distributed by Harper & Row, 1975. Reprint 1997.

Bernard Leach

De Waal, Edmund. Bernard Leach. Seattle WA: University of Washington Press, 1998.

Hamada, Shoji. The Quiet Eye: Pottery of Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach. Monterey, CA: Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, 1990.

Leach, Bernard. Hogben, Carol, ed. The Art of Bernard Leach. New York : Watson-Guptill Publications, 1978.

Leach, Bernard. Beyond East and West: Memoirs, Portraits, and Essays. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1978.

Leach, Bernard. A Potter's Work. London: Jupiter Books, 1977.

Whybrow, Marion. The Leach Legacy: The St. Ives Pottery and its Influence. Oviedo, FL: Gentle Breeze Publishing Co. (Division of Axner Co., Inc.), 1996. Soft cover.

Warren MacKenzie

Haworth, Dale K. Warren Mackenzie and the Functional Tradition in Clay. Northfield, MN: Carleton College, 1995.

Lewis, David. Warren MacKenzie, an American Potter. Tokyo; New York, NY: Kodansha International; Distributed in the U.S. by Kodansha America, 1991.

Gertrud and Otto Natzler

Gertrud and Otto Natzler: Collaboration/solitude. New York: American Craft Museum, 1993.

Natzler, Gertrud. Form and Fire: Natzler Ceramics, 1939-1972. Washington, DC: Published for the Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1973.

Gertrud and Otto Natzler: Ceramics. Springfield, MA: George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, 1970.

Paul Soldner

Paul Soldner: a Retrospective, in Honor of Paul Soldner: Exhibition. Essays by Elaine Levin, Mac Mclain, Mary Davis MacNaughton. Claremont, CA: Lang Gallery, Scripps College; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991.

Toshiko Takaezu

Takaezu, Toshiko. Toshiko Takaezu: Four Decades. Montclair, NJ: Montclair Art Museum, 1990.

Voulkos, Peter

Leedy, Jim. Voulkos. [photographs by Jim Leedy]. Goffstown, NH: Studio Potter, 1993.

Slivka, Rose. Peter Voulkos: A Dialogue with Clay. Boston; New York: Graphic Society, 1978.

Voulkos, Peter, Rose Slivka and Karen Tsujimoto. The Art of Peter Voulkos. New York: Kodansha International in collaboration with the Oakland Museum, 1995.

Wood, Beatrice

Naumann, Francis M., ed. Beatrice Wood: a centennial tribute. New York: American Craft Museum, 1997.

Wood, Beatrice. I Shock Myself: The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood. Lindsay Smith, ed. Ojai, CA: Dillingham Press, 1985. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1985. Paperback reprint 1988.

Wood, Beatrice. Playing Chess with the Heart: Beatrice Wood at 100. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1994.

Prepared by the Ceramics and Glass Collections, Division of Home and Community Life,
National Museum of American History, in cooperation with the Public Inquiry Mail Service,
Smithsonian Institution

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