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Bernard Howell Leach CH CBE (5 January 1887 – 6 May 1979) was a British studio potter and art teacher. [1] He is regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery ". [ 2 ]
The Leach Pottery was founded in 1920 by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada in St Ives, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. [ 1 ] The buildings grew from an old cow / tin-ore shed in the 19th century to a pottery in the 1920s with the addition of a two-storey cottage added on to the lower end of the pottery, followed by a completely separate cottage ...
Batterham worked in the tradition of Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada, for whom the term ethical pot was later coined and whose approach was in turn rooted in the Japanese Mingei movement. The ideal of this movement was the anonymous craftsman who quickly and dynamically produces ceramics for everyday use and in this way creates art without ...
Hamada was deeply impressed by a Tokyo exhibition of ceramic art by Bernard Leach, who was then staying with Yanagi Sōetsu, and wrote to Leach seeking an introduction. [3] The two found much in common and became good friends, so much so that Hamada asked and was granted permission to accompany Leach to England in 1920 when the latter decided ...
Thrown, combed tea bowl by Shōji Hamada. The concept of mingei (民芸), variously translated into English as "folk craft", "folk art" or "popular art", was developed from the mid-1920s in Japan by a philosopher and aesthete, Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961), together with a group of craftsmen, including the potters Hamada Shōji (1894–1978) and Kawai Kanjirō (1890–1966).
Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada set up the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall. The Heckscher Museum of Art is established in Huntington, New York. [4] The Latvian Museum of Foreign Art is established in Riga. Droit de suite is introduced in France. [5] [6]
The pottery studio is located in a Colonial Revival [8] building designed by Delano & Aldrich [2] at 16 Jones Street in Greenwich Village in New York City. [1] It is located within the South Village Historic District , and was registered on February 24, 2014, as a National Register of Historic Places .
Thrown vase by Lucie Rie in the W.A. Ismay Collection. William Alfred Ismay [1] MBE (10 April 1910 – 13 January 2001) was a librarian, writer and collector in Wakefield, West Yorkshire known for his significant collection of post-war studio pottery. [2]