Virginia Cartwright
Virginia Cartwright (1943-2025) was an American ceramic artist.
Virginia Cartwright
- Name
- Virginia Cartwright
- Born
- 1943
- Birthplace
- Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Education
- California State University, Long Beach, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Occupation
- Ceramist Virginia Cartwright (1943-2025) was an American ceramic artist.
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
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• Name — Virginia Cartwright • Born — 1943 • Birthplace — Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Education — California State University, Long Beach, Rochester Institute of Technology • Occupation — Ceramist Virginia Cartwright (1943-2025) was an American ceramic artist.
Biography
Biography
She studied at California State University, Long Beach (BA degree); School for American Craftsmen at Rochester Institute of Technology (MFA degree) under Frans Wildenhain; as well as at Pond Farm in Guerneville, California; and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. The first four years of her career she spent working on the wheel, and afterwards she moved to working in hand and slab-build, primarily utilitarian works. Her work is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Virginia Cartwright is recorded as ceramicist.
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1943
Virginia Cartwright born at Los Angeles.
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Virginia Cartwright studied at California State University, Long Beach, Rochester Institute of Technology, Pond Farm and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.
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- 1.Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology. Contemporary Ceramic Vessels: Two Los Angeles Collections: the Betty Asher Collection, the Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Collection. 15. 1984.
- 2.Cartwright. The Marks Project.
- 3.Teapot. LACMA Collections.
- 4.Lynn, Martha Drexler. Clay Today: Contemporary Ceramists and Their Work: a Catalogue of the Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 1990. 978-0-87701-756-1.
- 5.Utah State University. Artists Index. Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA).
- 6.Virginia Cartwright. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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