Property of Private Collection, SC

Description:

Toshiko Takaezu (American/Japanese, 1922-2011), Spotted Cream Glazed Tea Bowl, signed underneath with artists monogram initials 'TT', cream and celadon glaze with spots of brown and purple. Provenance: according to the consignor Toshiko Takaezu was a family friend and close acquaintance of her mother, Naomi M. Cohan who was a painter and printmaker. Her work is also featured in the auction. Cohan took a ceramics class at The Cleveland Institute of Art in the late 1950's where Takaezu was her teacher. Cohan stayed connected with Takaezu and she became close with the family. The works in the auction were purchased directly from the artist by Naomi Cohan and inherited by the current consignor, her daughter.

Born on June 17, 1922 in Pepeekeo, HI, Toshiko Takaezu was the daughter of Japanese immigrants. Toshiko went on to receive her formal training from the University of Hawaii and the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, where she later taught. Her artwork spanned ceramics, fiber pieces, bronzes, and paintings, but she was best known for her ceramic work, which was instrumental in establishing ceramics as a fine art. Throughout her lifetime, her work was exhibited widely in the United States and Japan, including a solo exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2004) and a retrospective at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan (1995). Today, her works are in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Honolulu Museum of Art. In 2024 the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum curated a major touring retrospective and monograph centered on her work and life. The retrospective traveled to the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Mich; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Chazen Museum of Art, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and the Honolulu Museum of Art, and included about 200 works in ceramics as well as the artist’s paintings, weavings and bronze-cast sculptures. (Artnet.com)

Measurements: Height: 3 1/4 in. x Width: 4 in.

Condition:

Good condition, craquelure to glaze.

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