Beatrice woods biography as an artist
Beatrice woods biography as an artist
Beatrice woods biography as an artist death.
Wood, Beatrice (1893–1998)
American painter, sculptor, and ceramist who was known as the "Mama of Dada" because of her association with several early 20th-century artists and writers .
Born on March 3, 1893, in San Francisco, California; died on March 13, 1998, in Ojai, California; attended several private schools in the United States and spent a year at a French convent school; studied drawing at the Académie Julien; studied with Viennese master ceramists Otto and Gertrude Natzler; married twice; no children.
Beatrice Wood, best known for her ceramic pieces known as lustreware, characterized by their opalescent glazes, was born in 1893 in San Francisco, but grew up in New York, where her family moved shortly after her birth.
Her privileged upbringing included private schools and sojourns to Europe with her mother each summer. In her early teens, Wood rebelled against the confines of her Edwardian upbringing and ran off to Paris (accompanied by a chaperon).
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