California Art Tile Company

American, b. 1922

James White Hislop (1860–1932) and his two sons founded the California Art Tile Company. His father and grandfather were noted clay craftsmen in Scotland. Hislop came to California in 1884, working at Gladding McBean in Lincoln, California, which manufactured sewer pipe and architectural elements, but not tile at that location. After seventeen years there, and another twenty years in brick and pottery companies in Stockton, California, Hislop settled in Richmond. He founded the Clay Glow Tile Company with his sons in 1922.