Typical Marks
About
- Apprenticeships & Residencies
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Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, Colorado
-—Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
-—Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina
- Primary Work Experience
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1966-1979
Professor, Wagner College, Staten Island, New York
Other
- Public Collections
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Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Arkansas Art Center, Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas
Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
JB Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Longhouse Foundation Collection, East Hampton, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
Museum of Arts & Sciences, Macon, Georgia
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey
Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri
The Studio Potter, 10th Anniversary Collection, New Hampshire
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
The Toledo Museum of Art, George and Dorothy Saxe Collection, Toledo, Ohio
University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa
White House Collection of American Crafts, Clinton Presidential Library, Little Rock, Arkansas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
- Bibliography
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Bean, Bennett. "At Eye Level." The Studio Potter 14, no. 1 (December 1985).
"Bennett Bean." Clay Times: The Journal of Ceramic Trends and Techniques, September/October 1996.
Busch, Akiko. "Bennett Bean." American Craft 48, no. 2 (April/May 1988).
Chambers, Karen S. "Not Just Another Pretty Pot." Ceramics: Art and Perception 29 (September 1997).
_______________. "Bennett Bean." Ceramics Monthly, March 1998.
Dietz, Ulysses G. Great Pots Contemporary Ceramics from Function to Fantasy. Madison, WI: Guild Publishing, The Newark Museum, 2003.
Gibson, John. Contemporary Pottery Decoration. Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Co., 1987.
Hickey, Gloria. "Bennett Bean." Ontario Craft 13, no. 9 (September 1988).
Lauria, Jo and Steve Fenton. Craft in America Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects. New York, NY: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2007.
Lauria, Jo. Color and Fire Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics 1950-2000. Los Angeles, CA: LACMA, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2000.
Leaning into the Wind: Ceramic Works by Bennett Bean. Little Rock, AK: Arkansas Art Center Decorative Arts Museum, 1996.
Levin, Elaine. The History of American Ceramics from Pipkins and Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms / 1607-Present. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988.
Monroe, Michael. The White House Collection of American Crafts. New York, NY: Abrams, 1995.
Pepich, Bruce W. "Bennett Bean." Art Gallery International, March/April 1989.
Peterson, Susan. The Craft and Art of Clay. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 2000.
Simpson, Tommy and Bill Seitz. Hand and Home: The Home of American Craftsmen. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1994.
Smith, Paul J. and Edward Lucie-Smith. Craft Today Poetry of the Physical. New York, NY: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, American Craft Museum, 1986.
Yood, James. "Bennett Bean, R. Duane Reed Gallery." American Craft, December 1999/January 2000.
- CV or Resume
- Website(s)
Citation: Bennett Bean, "The Marks Project."
Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/bennett-bean
