Ruth Duckworth Ceramics Artist

Born in hamburg in 1919 ruth duckworth came to britain in 1936 as a refugee from the nazi regime to join her sister renate and attended the liverpool school of art.

Ruth duckworth ceramics artist. View ruth duckworth s 200 artworks on artnet. Born in hamburg she received her art education in england and studied. Ruth duckworth was a british sculptor who was best known for her smooth ceramic works of abstract forms derived from nature. Ruth duckworth a sculptor whose work in clay and bronze included monumental sculptures and murals as well as small scale intimate pieces died last sunday in chicago.

Ruth duckworth april 10 1919 october 18 2009 was a modernist sculptor who specialized in ceramics though she also worked in stoneware porcelain and bronze her sculptures are mostly untitled. Sep 22 2019 explore dawn adams s board ruth duckworth ceramics followed by 387 people on pinterest. Mayfair gallery specialising in ceramics modern art. Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices.

Find the latest shows biography and artworks for sale by ruth duckworth. Ruth duckworth s delicate and ethereal porcelain and stoneware of the 1960s mostly hand built helped to push ceramics in a very interesting more sculptural direction. See more ideas about ceramics ceramic sculpture ceramic artists. See available design sculpture and paintings for sale and learn about the artist.

There she studied art at liverpool school of art hammersmith school of art and central school of arts and crafts in london and she organized her first exhibitions. The sculptor potter ruth duckworth who has died aged 90 shaped new ways of thinking about ceramics in the second half of the 20th century. Ruth duckworth s sculpture has never received the recognition it deserves. Her death was.

Approaching clay as a sculptor rather than as a potter. When duckworth 1919 2009 considered a pioneer in the field of ceramics came into her own as an artist in the 50s.