The Dictionary of American Ceramics, 1945 onward
Dictionary of American Ceramics, 1945 onward
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Toshiko Takaezu
1922Born Pepeekeo, Hawaii
2011Died Honolulu, Hawaii
EDUCATION
1948-1951Honolulu Museum of Art and University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
1951-1954Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE
1967-1992Faculty, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
BIOGRAPHY
Toshiko Takaezu made functional wheel-thrown vessels early in her career. Later she switched to abstract vessel inspired sculptures with freely applied poured and painted glazes. In the early 1970s, when she did not have access to a kiln, she painted on canvas.
Takaezu incorporates hand built techniques in order to overcome the restrictions of the wheel and to form the closed vessels for which she is best known. Takaezu was at the vanguard of an artistic revolution that elevated ceramics from a craft to an art.
An interview with Toshiko Takaezu conducted June 16, 2003, by Gerry Williams, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America is available at:
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-toshiko-takaezu-12097.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
Delaware Art Center, Wilmington, Delaware
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Frances Y. Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey
Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
Kresge Art Museum Michigan, East Lansing, Michigan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Murray State College, Murray, Kentucky
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey
National Museum, Bangkok, Thailand
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Southern Highland Craft Guild, Asheville, North Carolina
Springfield Museum, Springfield, Missouri
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Trout Art Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
University Art Museum, Albany, New York
University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii
Utah State College, Logan, Utah
University of Northern Illinois, DeKalb, Illinois
Zanesville Museum of Art, Zanesville, Ohio
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Clarke, Joan and Diane Dods. Artists/Hawaii. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1996.
Haar, Francis and Murray Turnbull. Artists of Hawaii, vol. 2. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1977.
Takaezu, Toshiko. "Portfolio." Bamboo Ridge Journal of Hawaii Literature and Arts, Spring 1996.
_______, Toshiko. Toshiko Takaezu: Four Decades. Montclair, NJ: Montclair Art Museum, 1989.
Yake, J. Stanley. Toshiko Takaezu, The Earth in Bloom. Albany, NY: MEAM Pub. Co., 2005.
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