San Francisco Ceramic Circle
September 19th, 2002 Meeting
"Partners in Beauty"
Lisa Taft
Art Historian and Educator
The September meeting of the San Francisco Ceramic Circle
will be held on Thursday, 19th 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: Partners in Beauty is the story of two
young Easterners, George Austin Dennison (1873-1966) and Charles
Frank Ingerson (1880-1968), who met in San Francisco around 1907
and shared an inspiration to create beautiful art objects. Together
they established a studio and school called Cathedral Oaks In
Alma, California (1911-1955). During their 55 years of collaboration
(1911-1966) they became painters, gold and silversmiths, ceramists
and enamellists, leather workers, weavers, sculptors, interior
decorators, cabinetmakers, and art restorers. Their breadth of
knowledge, warm personalities, and never ending enthusiasm made
them both highly regarded as friends and teachers. Their presence
affected patrons and artisans through out the entire Bay Area
for half a century.
About the lecturer: Lisa Taft, PhD, is an art historian and
instructor at Saint Mary's College, Moraga, CA. She has researched
California tile makers for the past 15 years. For her dissertation
she compiled the first biography of ceramist and tile maker Herman
Carl Mueller and the Mueller Mosaic Company, Trenton, New Jersey.
As a curator for the Ross C. Purdy Museum of Ceramics, American
Ceramic Society, Columbus, Ohio, she helped develop the new museum
and researched the permanent collection of the Society.
Next meeting: Thursday, 17th October 2002. Michael J. Weller
"Designing Dishes"