Wes Rolley on wed 29 jan 03
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I have just received a list of some of the people who have been designated=
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as "California Living Treasures". While not complete, the list started in=
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1985 with the following potters included: Laura Andreson, Robert Arneson,=
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Peter Voulkos, Beatrice Wood.
Interesting task to track down the rest.
"I find I have a great lot to learn =96 or unlearn. I seem to know far too=
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much and this knowledge obscures the really significant facts, but I am=20
getting on." -- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Wesley C. Rolley
17211 Quail Court
Morgan Hill, CA 95037
wrolley@charter.net
(408)778-3024
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Joanne S. Perrot on wed 29 jan 03
Harrison McIntosh ought to be on that list of California Living Treasures.
He lives in Claremont.
Joanne Perrot
Millie Carpenter on sat 1 feb 03
Thank you for posting this. I was not familiar with Laura Andreson, so
I did a google on her. I spent a wonderful hour looking at her pots.
beautiful classic work. if anyone else is interested, these two sites
had super photos
http://www.mingei.org/brclay.html
http://web-kiosk.scrippscollege.edu/Prt340*1$925*SQ*457448
Millie in Md deeply saddened by our latest national tragedy
Wes Rolley wrote:
> I have just received a list of some of the people who have been
> designated as "California Living Treasures". While not complete, the
> list started in 1985 with the following potters included: Laura
> Andreson, Robert Arneson, Peter Voulkos, Beatrice Wood.
>
>
Susan Fox-Hirschmann on sat 1 feb 03
Your list would not be complete without
Otto Heino (Ojai, California).
Best!
Susan Fox Hirschmann
Annandale, VA
Wes Rolley on sun 2 feb 03
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At 06:19 PM 2/1/03 -0500, you wrote:
When I first posted the "California Living Treasures" list, I did so
because I had not previously known it existed and who was "on the
list". Since the designation can be made by the state legislature or by
the Creative Arts League of Sacramento, no one seems to be able to provide
a complete list, not even the Crocker museum in Sacramento who had the
first exhibition of the works of those so designated back in 1985. In
fact, the California Arts Council, a State Agency, seemed not to even know
about the designation.
I also had my interest piqued by the similarity of designation between
California Living Treasure and the National Living Treasure of Japan.
There are certainly many who deserve to be on the list. Harrison Macintosh
and Otto Heino among potters. Maybe they are and maybe not. I have not
been able to compile a complete list. I am not sure where one would place
a few others like Clayton Bailey or Philip Corneilus. Is Paul Soldner
truly enough of a Californian? Maybe more a man of the world.
The same question of why one is in and not another is also present in other
crafts. I know more about wood working that other traditions. It is clear
that furniture maker Sam Maloof, wood turner Robert Stocksdale and Arthur
Espenet Carpenter deserved it. So does James Krenov, an internationally
honored wood worker and educator, but as far as I can find out, he has not
been designated. Those who are not familiar with the works of these four
masters of their craft should view the following:
http://www.sammaloof.com
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/maloof/
http://www.jra.org/craftart/sto_sek.htm Stocksdale and Kay Sekimachi.
http://www.crfinefurniture.com/ Fine Woodworking School directed by Krenov.
or the book, "With Wakened Hands: Furniture by Jame Krenov and Students"
"...I strongly believe that craftsmanship is important only to the extent
that it supports the spiritual content of the work. Form, emphasized by
surface quality must, above all, remain a very human expression. And the
quality of a piece, at the end, depends on the human emotion it expresses
or inspires." - Harrison Macintosh
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