Ernest Allan Batchelder

1875 Born New Hampshire

1957 Died Pasadena, California

EDUCATION

1899 Teaching Certification, Art and Design, Massachusetts Normal Art School,Boston, Massachusetts

1905 Coursework,Guild of Handicraft, Chipping Campden, England

1905 Coursework, Central School of Arts and Crafts, Birmingham, England

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

1902-1906 Professor, Design and Drawing, Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena,California

1905-1909 Director, Minneapolis Summer School of Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1906-1909 Director of Art, Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena, California

1909-1935 Founding Director, The Batchelder Tile Company, Pasadena, California

1936-1949 Sole Proprietor, Pasadena Pottery (DBABatchelder Ceramics, DBAKinneloa Kilns), Pasadena, California

BIOGRAPHY

Ernest Allan Batchelder is known for ceramic tile and slip cast vessels. Master tiles were most often hand carved and created in multiples with the aid of plaster molds. Batchelder's hand carved tiles typically feature colored engobe inlay and appear in low relief. A variety of representational and patterned tiles were produced, namely through Batchelder's tile company in Pasadena,California. Later, Batchelder produced slipcast utilitarian vessels in a range of bright colors. Batchelder was an early pioneer of the Arts and Crafts Movement in California in first half of the 20thCentury.