Maija Grotell
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Maija Grotell was an influential Finnish-American ceramic artist and educator. She is often described as the "Mother of American Ceramics."
Maija Grotell 1920s
Vase, 1935.
Toshiko Takaezu
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Toshiko Takaezu was an American ceramic artist, painter, sculptor, textile artist and educator whose body of work spanned a wide range of mediums, including ceramics, weavings, bronzes, and paintings.
Maija Grotell
…many leading ceramists, including Marie Woo, Jan Sultz, Richard De Vore, John Parker Glick, Howard Kottler, Suzanne Stephenson and John Stephenson, Toshiko Takaezu, and Jeff Schlanger. Though Maija Grotell faced significant barriers due to being a single woman, she proved to be very successful. In 1929 she received…
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Cobalt Blue (c.1990s), Full Moon (1978), Zeus (2000), Sophia (2002), and Anagama (c.1980s) at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., in 2022
Shiro Momo (White Peach), porcelain, Toshiko Takaezu (1992) Hawaii State Art Museum
Garden Piece, stoneware, Toshiko Takaezu, (1973) Hawaii State Art Museum