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American
(1919–2009)
Plate
1976
Stoneware
2.125 x 11.5 x 11.5 in.
Gift of the artist
1984.1000
During his lifetime, Gaell Lindstrom became a master artist in both the watercolor and ceramics mediums. Though he studied painting at the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in 1951, he had noticed the ceramics revival after World War Two, which influenced his involvement in that art. At the University of Utah (1949–1952), he studied painting for his degree, as well as pottery with Dorothy Bearnson. Lindstrom began his teaching career in 1953 in a Cedar City high school, and later taught ceramics classes at the College of Southern Utah in Cedar City, with rather poor wheels and a kerosene-fueled kiln. Despite these nonideal conditions, he thought, “Rather than do another painting or two, I’d like to learn more about ceramics.” He enrolled at the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC) in Oakland, and, attending as he could while teaching, he finished his MFA in ceramics in 1962. In the early 1950s Lindstrom had found a very light, yellow clay on a hillside in Cache Valley and brought it to his ceramics class. The clay melted to a very nice mustard color, and it became a useful glaze, still known as the Hyrum Dam glaze. That whetted Lindstrom’s appetite, and natural clays and glaze testing became the subject of his thesis for his CCAC degree.
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