Mary Chase Perry Stratton
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Mary Chase Perry Stratton was an American ceramicist, born in Hancock, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula on March 15, 1867 and died in Detroit, Michigan on April 15, 1961. She was a co-founder, along with Horace James Caulkins, of the Pewabic Pottery.[1]
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[edit] The early years
The Stratton family moved to Ann Arbor following the death of Mary's father, and from there to the Detroit area when she was in her early teens. There she attended her first art classes at the Art School of the Detroit Museum of Art. She followed that up with two years of studies at the Cincinnati Art School from 1887 to 1889 where she studied with the regionally important sculptor and educator Louis Rebisso.[1]
[edit] Pewabic Pottery
Returning to Detroit she eventually founded the Pewabic Pottery, named after an old copper mine (or sometimes, the Indian name of a nearby river) in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, with Caulkins in 1903. In 1907 the enterprise flourished and moved from its place on John R Street to a new building designed by Detroit architect William Stratton located on Jefferson Avenue, where the business still thrives. In 1918 she married William Stratton.[1]
Under her leadership, Pewabic Pottery produced architectural tiles, lamps and vessels. The Pewabic Pottery became known far and wide for its iridescent glazes, and was used in churches, libraries, schools, and public buildings.[2][3]
Pewabic Pottery is Michigan's only historic pottery. It is designated a National Historic Landmark.
Ms. Stratton established the ceramics department at the University of Michigan and taught there. She taught also at Wayne State University. In 1947, she received the highest award in the American ceramic field, namely the Charles Fergus Binns Medal.[2]
She worked at the pottery until her death in 1961 at the age of 94.
Today Pewabic Pottery offers classes, workshops, lectures, internships and residency programs for potters of all ages.
[edit] External links
- Child's history of Pewabic Pottery and Mary Stratton--Michigan Historical Museum
- Craft in America
- List of Selected Readings on Pewabic Pottery
- Maps and detailed lists of locations (including addresses) of architectural installations of Pewabic Tile
- Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum Exhibition Catalog, June 1 through September 29, 2007, Essay on Pewabic Pottery, its importance, and the partnership between Caulkins and Stratton
- Painting With Fire: Pewabic Vessels in the Margaret Watson Parker Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art. [1]
- Pewabic Pottery
- Pewabic Pottery Virtual Tour
- Picture of Mary Chase Perry Stratton
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c Nolan, Jenny (February 13, 2000).Pewabic tile, Detroit's art treasure. Michigan History, The Detroit News. Retrieved on June 6, 2008.
- ^ a b Craft in America, Mary Chase Perry Stratton
- ^ Zacharias, Pat (March 10, 2001).Guardian Building has long been the crown jewel in the Detroit skyline. Michigan History, Detroit News. Retrieved on June 2, 2008.
[edit] References and further reading
- Barrie, Dennis; Jeanie Huntley Bentley; Cynthia Newman Helms; Mary Chris Rospond, Artists in Michigan: 1900-1976, Wayne State University Press, Detroit 1989. ISBN 0814319076.
- Brunk, Colby, Jacobs et al, Arts and Crafts in Detroit 1906-1976: The Movement, The Society, The School. (Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit MI, 1976).
- Brunk, Thomas W. "Ceramics in Michigan, 1886-1906" in The Arts and Crafts Movement in Michigan: 1886-1906. (Detroit, The Pewabic Society, Inc., 1986). ISBN 0937885002.
- Brunk, Thomas W., with Introduction by Marilyn L. Wheaton, Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum Exhibition Catalog, June 1 through September 29, 2007, Essay on Pewabic Pottery.[1]
- Colby, Joy Hakanson, Art and a City: A History of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts. (Wayne State University Press, Detroit MI, 1956). ISBN 0686879872.
- Fisher, Marcy Heller and illustrated by Marjorie Hecht Simon, Fired Magic: Detroit's Pewabic Pottery Treasure. (Wayne State University Press, 2003). ISBN 0-8143-3143-2.
- Gibson, Arthur Hopkin, Artists of Early Michigan: A Biographical Dictionary of Artists Native to or Active in Michigan, 1701-1900. (Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1975). ISBN 0814315283.
- Hill, Eric J., and John Gallagher, AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Architecture in Detroit. ( Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI 2003). ISBN 0-8143-3120-3.
- Karlson, Norman, The Encyclopedia of American Art Tiles, Volume 2, Region 3: Midwestern States. (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2005). ISBN 0764322311 ISBN 978-0764322310
- Pear, Lillian Myers, The Pewabic Pottery: A History of its Products and its People. (Des Moines, Iowa, Wallace-Homestead: 1976). ISBN 0870691589.
- Rago, David, Suzanne Sliker, and David Rudd, The Arts & Crafts Collector's Guide. (Salt Lake City, Utah , Gibbs Smith, 2005). ISBN 1586850520.
- Savage, Rebecca Binno and Greg Kowalski. Art Deco in Detroit (Images of America). (Arcadia, 2004). ISBN 0-7385-3228-2.
