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Sue Barnes

 1929  Born Denton, Texas

EDUCATION

1950 BA Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas

—Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis, Tennessee

 

Sue Barnes is known for a wide range of functional porcelain and stoneware work which is gas fired in reduction with salt.

Barnes is also known for undersea photography.

Public Collections

Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, Tennessee

Southern Highland Craft Guild, Asheville, North Carolina

Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee

Bibliography

Studio Potter 9, no. 2 (1981).

“The New Art: American Crafts.” House Beautiful (April 1987).

 

 

 

 

Center for CraftSouthern Highland Craft Guild

 

Typical Marks

"sue Barnes" with two dots at the end in cursive edged into wet clay

1981-1991
Bowl
Date: 1981-1991
Materials: Porcelain
Method: Hand-Built
Surface Technique: Glaze
Southern Highland Craft Guild Collection, 1993.1
Photo: Southern Highland Craft Guild
Southern Highland Craft Guild Collection, 1993.1
Photo: Southern Highland Craft Guild
Bowl
Materials: Porcelain
Method: Hand-Built
Surface Technique: Glaze
Photo: TMP
Plate
Materials: Porcelain
Method: Hand-Built
Surface Technique: Glaze
Photo: TMP
Vase
Materials: Porcelain
Method: Thrown and Altered
Surface Technique: Glaze
Photo: TMP

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Tags

Southern Highland Craft Guild, SHCG, Center for Craft, CfC

 

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