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Virginia Cartwright
American,
b. 1943
Jar
1986
Stoneware
7.125 x 6 x 6 in.
Gift of the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation
1986.64
Virginia Cartwright’s hand and slab-built thin-walled functional work has almost always been left unglazed. She notes, “The skills that I previously learned from dressmaking and metal smithing influenced the construction of my pieces.” To create the forms, she would cut a triangle out of the clay, as in making a dart for constructing a dress bodice, then bring the clay together which pulled in the form. For Jar the cuts were shallower and shorter, pulling in the clay more slightly to create a rounded box. The collar and lid were also hand shaped.
Cartwright was born in Los Angeles and received her Bachelor of Arts at California State University, Long Beach and her Master of Fine Arts from the School for American Craftsmen, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, New York. She also attended Marguerite Wildenhain’s (see Wildenhain’s 1950s Jar) summer school at Pond Farm in Northern California. At RIT Cartwright studied with and was lab assistant for renowned sculptor Franz Wildenhain, Marguerite’s former husband. Cartwright taught at several schools, including Scripps College, in Claremont, California and Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles.
Billie Sessions, PhD.
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- cubes
- jars - Deep, wide-mouthed vessels used for holding a variety of substances, usually without handles and generally cylindrical, although sometimes made in other shapes. For narrower-necked vessles, use "bottles."
- variable orange colors - A range of colors resembling variations of orange pigment.
Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Ceramic Case 7: Southern California Connections , 8/17/2012 - 11/4/2013
- Black Mountain College: Shaping Craft + Design , 8/25/2014 - 2/28/2015
- Lidded Vessels Ceramic Niche; Student Curated by Quin Maher , 4/22/2019 - 5/3/2020
- Fall 20 - Hand Built , 10/20/2020 - 12/18/2021
- Unearthed , 8/23/2022 - 5/14/2023
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