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Beatrice WoodWW-1947-533881
Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1947
Catalogue
- Year
- 1947
- Dimensions
- 6 3/4 × 17 3/4 × 5 3/8 in., 4.2 lb. (17.1 × 45.1 × 13.7 cm, 1.9 kg)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Beatrice Wood
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Beatrice Wood
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Beatrice Wood was an American ceramicist, painter, and performer whose lusterware vessels combined medieval Islamic glazing techniques with modernist abstraction. Working from her studio in Ojai, California, she developed a distinctive approach to lustered earthenware that bridged craft tradition and fine art. Her prolific output across ceramics, painting, and experimental theater spanned nearly a century, establishing her as a defining figure in twentieth-century studio ceramics. Wood's iridescent vessels and painted forms rejected the boundary between functional object and autonomous artwork.
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- Beatrice Wood
- Year
- 1947
- Dimensions
- 6 3/4 × 17 3/4 × 5 3/8 in., 4.2 lb. (17.1 × 45.1 × 13.7 cm, 1.9 kg)
- Watts ID
- WW-1947-533881
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- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
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- Status
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