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Eunice Prieto
American(1924–2015)
Jar
1960
Porcelain
2.375 x 5 x 5 in.
Gift of Richard A. Harrison
1984.998
Eunice Prieto is known for her diverse large classic square platters, however, she also made a variety of palm-sized covered jars during the 1960s. Though the form is completely traditional on this porcelain Jar, the glaze effects are not. Both the choice of colors and bubbling pink foam show quite unusual results.
Eunice Adams Prieto was the youngest of two sisters who grew up on a farm outside of Spencerport, New York, on the Erie Canal. Though small in stature, her nickname was “Amazon Adams,” as her capacity for hard work of all kinds carried her through life’s challenges. On the farm as a young girl she drove tractors and combines. Eunice attended Alfred University in New York, where she met her future Spanish-born husband, Antonio Prieto. They settled in the Bay Area where she taught ceramics at a number of community sites and college programs, while raising four sons and exhibiting her ceramics frequently. After having her sons, in 1968, she earned her Master of Fine Arts at California College of the Arts and Crafts (CCAC). The Prieto’s lived on the Mills College, Oakland, California campus where their home was a center for a community of artists, as her husband was head of the ceramics program. Though ceramics was her life-long primary art form, Eunice also enameled and painted. Eunice was a respected potter and she took over her husband’s classes at Mills for a while after he died in 1967. In the 1970s, Eunice and her sons relocated to West Oakland where they established Prieto Studios, which still exists today. Eunice later remarried and lived in the high basin range of western Nevada and continued with ceramics and watercolor.
Billie Sessions, PhD.
Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Ceramic Case 10: Nora Eccles Harrison and Her Influences , 8/21/2012 - 5/7/2014
- Unearthed , 8/23/2022 - 5/14/2023
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