William Wyman

1922Born Boston, Massachusetts

1980Died

EDUCATION

1950BS Education, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts

1951MA Columbia University, New York, New York

1953New York State College of Art, Alfred University, Alfred, New York

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

— Ceramic Professor, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

1953Studio Potter and Instructor, Scituate and East Weymouth, Massachusetts

  1962Co-Founder, Herring Run Pottery, East Weymouth, Massachusetts

BIOGRAPHY 

William Wyman is well known for a series of stoneware slab built vessels often covered with sgraffito cartoons, poems or other contemporary phrases.

William Wyman began his career as a professional potter in 1953. He and fellow potter Michael Cohen established Herring Run Pottery in 1962, where Wyman created a wide range of both functional and non-functional work.  In the 1960s Wyman dipped his smaller slab vessels in multiple glazes creating patterns of flowing colors. In 1965 after time spent in Honduras he began to create undecorated, unglazed geometric driven structures inspired by Mayan ruins which he called “Temples”.