Mary Chase Perry Stratton

Mary Chase Perry Stratton studied at Detroit Museum of Art School. Training under Chauncey R. Thomas is recorded. Employment is recorded with Wayne State University, University of Michigan and Pewabic Pottery. Works named in the authority record are Pewabic Pottery. Work by Mary Chase Perry Stratton is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Detroit Institute of Arts. Distinctions recorded are Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.

• Name — Mary Chase Perry Stratton • Birth Name — Mary Chase Perry • Born — 15 March 1867 • Birthplace — Hancock, Michigan • Died — 15 April 1961 • Spouse — William Stratton • Illustration — A glazed earthenware bottle by Mary Chase Perry Stratton Mary Chase Perry Stratton (March 15, 1867 – April 15, 1961) was an American ceramic artist. She was a co-founder, along with Horace James Caulkins, of Pewabic Pottery, a form of ceramic art used to make architectural tiles.

Stratton was born in Hancock, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula and later moved with her family to Ann Arbor, following the death of her father, and from there to the Detroit area, when she was in her early teens. There she attended her first art classes at the Art School of the Detroit Museum of Art. She followed that up with two years of studies at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, from 1887 to 1889, where she studied with the regionally important sculptor and educator Louis Rebisso. Returning to Detroit she founded the Pewabic Pottery, named after an old copper mine (or sometimes, the Indian name of a nearby river) in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, with Caulkins in 1903. In 1907 the enterprise flourished and moved from the Carriage House behind the Ransom Gillis House, on John R Street, to a new building designed by Detroit architect William Stratton located on Jefferson Avenue, where the business still thrives. In 1918, she married William Stratton. She died on April 15, 1961.