Beatrice Wood Ceramic Artist

She gained celebrity for her pottery for her unusual lustreware in particular and inspired a character in the book jules et jim 1953.

Beatrice wood ceramic artist. Ultimately it was this exposure to the arts that ruined her mother s plans for her. She had earlier studied art and theater in paris and was working in new york as an actress. In 1994 the smithsonian institution named her an esteemed american artist. Beatrice wood american ceramicist who was dubbed the mama of dada as a result of her affiliation with the dada movement and artist marcel duchamp.

Wood began working with ceramics in 1933 when she took a class at hollywood high school in california. She founded and edited the blind man magazine in new york city with french artist marcel duchamp and writer henri pierre roché in 1917. Wood s ceramics which she continued to create until her death at age 105 are part of museum collections worldwide. In 1912 beatrice rejected plans for a coming out party and announced that she wanted to be a painter.

Beatrice wood fled her affluent home and proper upbringing to become an actress artist and writer. Although intrigued by the arts from an early age wood was 40 years old by the time she began experimenting with ceramics and found her true vocation before discovering her love for clay wood had forays into painting drawing writing and theatre. She was an outspoken and determined young woman who became known as the mama of dada because of her involvement with the dada artists and marcel duchamp. Beatrice wood march 3 1893 march 12 1998 was an american artist and studio potter involved in the avant garde movement in the united states.

Beatrice wood 1893 1998 is known both for her shimmering pots and her long extraordinary life.