Bowl

USA, 1900
Treadway Toomey Auctions
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Glen Lukens | 1889 – Present

Glen Lukens is well-known for his extensive research and development of glazes. His glazes are found on a wide range of functional vessels he created throughout his career.

He attended the Oregon State Agricultural School to study education and was required to take a ceramics course. Without a potter?s wheel on site, he was given a rudimentary introduction to coil built and press molding techniques. He was essentially self-taught spending the rest of his career experimenting and learning.

Fascinated with the ancient Egyptian blue, Lukens sought to replicate the color. He first searched the Mojave Desert and mined the deserts around Palm Springs and Death Valley, CA, not only clay, but also glaze minerals. Lukens went on to develop a process of pulverizing agate, amethyst, turquoise, minerals and local stones with added glass powder. Using this method he produced a low-firedpalette that was known as ?California colors.? It was in Death Valley that he discovered a copper-rich clay that led to the formula for an "Egyptian Blue" glaze found on many of his works.

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