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.
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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
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."
Toshiko Takaezu
…Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (1951), where she studied sculpture with William McVey and weaving with Marianne Strengell, and met Finnish ceramist Maija Grotell, to whom she became an assistant in 1953. A pivotal influence and mentor on her development as an artist, Grotell was, in Takaezu’s view, "an unusual…
Maija Grotell 1920s
Vase, 1935.