Description

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Clary Illian has been producing ceramics since the early 1960s, after graduating from the University of Iowa’s distinguished ceramics department and a two-year residency with world-renowned British ceramicist Bernard Leach. Clary Illian: A Potter’s Potter surveys many of the best works from her fifty-year career, including pots in stoneware, porcelain, and earthenware, the three major media in which she has worked. It is a revelatory look at one of America’s premier potters.
This catalog was originally produced as a companion to the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art’s Clary Illian pottery retrospective in 2012–2103.

About the Author

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A native Iowan, Clary Illian received her BFA in 1963 from the University of Iowa. In 1964 and 1965, she apprenticed at Bernard Leach Pottery in Cornwall, England. Since her return in 1966, she has crafted a full-time career as a utilitarian potter. Working from her studio in Ely, Iowa, Illian continues to make pots in addition to teaching in workshops and seminars across North America. Gail Kendall is a potter and emerita professor of art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Joy Sperling is professor of art history at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Sean M. Ulmer is curator of collections and exhibitions for the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.