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Born 1933 Centerville, Indiana
Died 2002 Louisville, Kentucky
EDUCATION
1951-1952 Ceramics, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
1952-1955 Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, New York
1955-1957 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
APPRENTICESHIPS AND RESIDENCIES
1959-1962 Apprenticed to Bernard Leach in St. Ives, England
PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE
1962-2002 Studio Potter
BIOGRAPHY
Byron Temple's works are generally spare, simple forms referencing Bauhaus, British, and Asian ceramics. His pieces were thrown using porcelain and then wood and salt fired. From 1962 to 1989 he created reduction-fired domestic wares.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California
Ball State University Museum, Muncie, Indiana
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah
Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
Museum Boymans-can Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Nelson Museum at Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizon
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
Palmer Museum, Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, New York
State Museum of New Jersey, Trenton, New Jersey
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dietz, Ulysses Grant. Great Pots Contemporary Ceramics from Function to Fantasy. Newark, NJ: Guild Publishers/Newark Museum, 2003.
Levin, Elaine. The History of American Ceramics: From Pipkins and Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms, 1607 to the Present. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1988.
Nordness, Lee. Objects USA. New York, NY: Viking Press, 1970.
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Possibly Asian symbol stamed into the clay.
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