Beatrice wood

View Multi-handled Luster Vessel (Circa 1980) Designed by Wood Beatrice; Earthenware; 11.25 x 8.5 x 8.25 in; Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

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Beatrice Wood was an American avant-garde potter. Her signature experimental sculptural techniques established her as the Mama of Dada.

Best known for her magnificent, luster glaze ceramics and sometimes provocative personality, Beatrice Wood was a key member of New York’s Dada movement during the early 20th century and continued to create a reputation for herself as an artist after moving to California in the 1920s.

Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, California

The Virgin's Dream The absurdities of love and life come alive in the drawings and ceramics of renowned California artist Beatrice Wood. The Virgin’s Dream, a title taken from one of her signature figurative ceramic works, features a diverse collection from the 1930s to the 1990s of drawings in watercolor, colored pencil and graphite, book illustrations, sketchbooks, figurative sculptures, vessels, plates, and a unique mobile that hung in the artist’s home in Ojai, California. Born in 1893…

American artist and potter Beatrice Wood, 1893–1998. Her most productive years were from age 80 to 105. "I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men." At the age of 90, Wood became a writer, having been encouraged to write by her friend, Anais Nin, a French writer.