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Bertie Smith

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Born San Antonio, Texas

BIOGRAPHY

Bertie Smith is known for small hand-built earthenware sculptures, often in the form of teapots, vertical assemblages of forms or human figurines. The sculptures are vibrantly decorated using underglazes, glazes, and luster. They were raku, reduction or salt fired.

Smith’s first ceramics classes were at the Witt Museum, San Antonio, Texas with teacher Harding Black.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Public Collections to Display:

American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Smith, Dennis W., “Bertie Smith,” Ceramics Monthly¸ 48, no. 6 (June/July/August 2000). Accessed 29 October 2021 ceramics-monthly-jun00-cei0600d.pdf (ceramicartsnetwork.org)