James Lawton
Bruce Anderson is known for mid-century functional, production pottery. He studied at Pond Farm where he was an early student of Marguerite Wildenhain.
Anderson exhibited in the Syracuse Ceramic Nationals in 1948, ...
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Bruce Anderson is known for mid-century functional, production pottery. He studied at Pond Farm where he was an early student of Marguerite Wildenhain.
Anderson exhibited in the Syracuse Ceramic Nationals in 1948, 1949, 1950 and 1962. He was affiliated with the Association of San Francisco Potters (now the Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California). In 2006, his work was exhibited at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History as part of ?Time and Place / Then and Now? an exhibition of Santa Cruz potters.
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1983-1985
Resident Craftsman, Penland School, Penland, North Carolina
1996, 2002Artist-in-Residence, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, North Edgecomb, Maine
-2005Artist-in-Residence, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado
- Primary Work Experience
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1988-1998
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1998—University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Other
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Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred University, Alfred, New York
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, South Korea
Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Yixing Museum, Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, China
- Bibliography
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Clark, Garth. The Artful Teapot. London, England: Thames & Hudson, 2001.
__________ The Eccentric Teapot. New York, NY: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1989.
__________American Ceramics: 1876 to the Present. New York, NY: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1988.
Dietz, Ulysses Grant. Great Pots: Contemporary Ceramics from Function to Fantasy. Madison WI: Guild Publishing, 2003.
Del Vecchio, Mark. Post Modern Ceramics. London, England: Thames & Hudson, 2001.Lark Books.
The Penland Book of Ceramics: Master Classes in Ceramic Techniques. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 2003.
Dormer, Peter. The New Ceramics: Trends & Traditions. London, England: Thames & Hudson, 1991.
Lauria, Jo. Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000. Los Angeles, CA:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Rizzoli International, 2000.
Lawton, James. “Terra Sigillata: My Way.” The Studio Potter 26 (1997).
_____________”A Glazer’s Memoir.” The Studio Potter 24 no. 1 (1995).
Peterson, Susan. Contemporary Ceramics. Watson-Guptill, 2000.
_____________The Craft and Art of Clay. New York, NY: Prentice Hall, 1991.
Shepley, Carol. “Ceramics: Parallels, Diversity.” St. Louis Post Dispatch, July 26, 1993.
Zakin, Richard. Ceramics: Ways of Creation. Iola, WI: Krause Publishers, 1999.
- CV or Resume
- Website(s)
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