Modernism: Ceramics by Norman Arsenault offered for Sale by Lovejoy Pond

Norman Arsenault is one of the true masters of the art pottery movement in this country. Arsenault graduated from the Worcester Museum of Fine Arts School in the early 1930s with a major in Ceramics and continued his education at the "Ecole des Arts Decoratifs" in Paris. He studied glaze chemistry with Dr. Harder at the State University of New York. In the late 30s Mr. Arsenault established the Department of Ceramics in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and remained there until his retirement in 1972. Most of 1955 was spent in Japan where he worked in the studios of six of Japan's "National Treasures" including Hamada and Kato. Norman Arsenault is well represented in the Department of Decoration and Scupture in the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Click on the item to see a larger view and pricing infomation.
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