San Francisco Ceramic Circle
September 21st, 2000 Meeting
The Revolution of the Wheel: California Clay at Mid
Century
an illustrated slide lecture by
Dane Cloutier
Art dealer, Historian, Writer and Consultant on Ceramic
Art
The September meeting of the San Francisco Ceramic Circle
will be held on Thursday, 21st September in the Florence Gould
Theater at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park,
San Francisco. Entrance is from the West terrace from 7.30pm.
The lecture will start at 8.00pm
About the Lecture:
This illustrated talk will present a historical overview of
the studio pottery made in California around the middle of the
20th century. The presentation will discuss and illustrate a variety
of outside influences that helped to shape California clay including
ancient chinese and contemporaryJapanese pottery, the Bauhaus
and European artists of the period.
Examples of the work of notable Bay Area artists such as F.
Carlton Ball, Antonio Prieto, Marguerite Wildenhein, Peter Voulkos
and Herbert Sanders will be shown and discussed in depth as will
the work of Harrison McIntosh, Gertrud and Otto Natzler, and Laura
Andreson working in Southern California.
About our speaker:
Dane Cloutier is an art dealer, historian, writer and consultant
on ceramic art. He is a contributing editor to the Modernism Magazine
and has been an advisor to major museums. Mr. Cloutier maintains
an online gallery on the world wide web at http://www.clayonline.com
which may be accessed through the link provided below or directly.
For more information open this link to Dane
Cloutier
Next meeting: Thursday, 19th October 2000. A talk on Staffordshire
Earthenware Figures by Patricia Halfpenny, Director of Collections,
Winterthur