Photo: Southern Highland Craft Guild
Photo: Southern Highland Craft Guild
Photo: Southern Highland Craft Guild
Photo: Southern Highland Craft Guild

Bowl

USA, 1900
Southern Highland Craft Guild Collection
Date acquired:
Materials:
Earthenware
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
Thrown
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes:
Glaze
Wanda Lea Austin

Wanda Lea Austin is known for wheel thrown, functional red earthenware: vases, bowls, platters, pitchers, cups, plates, ashtrays, and jam pots. The brushed images on Austin?s work are motifs taken from the natural world.

Her studies in art and ceramics included courses at the Art Institute of Chicago, Black Mountain College, and Kalamazoo Institute of Art.

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Southern Highland Craft Guild Collection

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Southern Highland Craft Guild Collection
Asheville, North Carolina
 

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