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He is one of the best-known ceramic artists of the Pomona Valley and leader in the post-World War II Southern California crafts movement. Along with the history, culture, and lifestyle of this era, the exhibition features Harrison’s beautifully crafted ceramic pottery and sculpture, recognized for its precision, perfect proportions, repetitive lines, and subtle, decorative graphic elements. While some ceramic artists of that time went on to follow the more extreme choice of abstract-expressionist ceramic art, McIntosh chose to pursue vessel-oriented forms, concentrating on craftsmanship and fine design Harrison McIntosh was born in 1914 in Vallejo, California. He studied ceramics at the University of Southern California and the Claremont Graduate University near Los Angeles. McIntosh was introduced to ceramics when he enrolled in Glen Lukens’ class at the University of Southern California in 1940.He then studied at the Claremont Graduate School with Richard Petterson from 1949 through 1953, during which time he produced his first wheel thrown stoneware vessels and began to show them in exhibitions. Working with Marguerite Wildehain during the summer of 1953, he gained his first exposure to the Bauhaus aesthetic and incorporated it into his developing style.He taught the next year at Otis Art Institute, where he worked with Peter Voulkos, whose work he greatly admires to this day. He worked as a professional studio potter in Claremont since the mid-1950s, supplementing his studio sales with designs of ceramic and glass wares for such large factories as the Japanese company Mikasa his art has a simple elegance that unites elements both ancient and modern after he left Otis, McIntosh settled in Claremont, California where he made his own art studio and home that suited his visual sensibilities and his working methods and he continued to live the life of a studio potter. In the 1970’s he moved gradually from the vessel into making more sculptural, closed ceramic spheres that express the same elegant refinement as his vases, bowls, and jars. He now has a half a century of art he would display it in public and private collections Slowly but surely, examples of his work have joined the collections of about three dozen museumsrking methods and he continued to live the life of a studio potter. In the 1970’s he moved gradually from the vessel into making more sculptural, closed ceramic spheres that express the same elegant refinement as his vases, bowls, and jars. He now has a half a century of art he would display it in public and private collections
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