Betty Woodman Art
American, 1930-2018
Betty Woodman was a leading American ceramist whose dazzling inventions with form and color moved beyond the traditional domain of craft. Her work is crucial to larger discussions about gender, craft, and modernism in 20th-century America.
In 2008, Woodman was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Brooklyn Museum. She has been honored as National Academician by National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts in New York and is the recipient of the prestigious Dunwiddie Prize from that same institution. She holds Honorary Doctorates from Rhode Island School of Design; Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; and the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she served as Professor of Fine Arts for many years. Other honors and awards include the Premio Internazionale Vietri sul Mare, Fondazione Museo Artistico Industriale in Salerno, Italy; the Visionary Award of The American Craft Museum in New York; a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship from he Bellagio Study Center in Bellagio, Italy; a Distinguished Research & Creative Lectureship, University of Colorado, Boulder; the Colorado Governor’s Award in the Arts; two NEA Fellowships, and a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to Florence, Italy.
Woodman’s work has been shown around the world in exhibitions throughout the US, and in France, Italy, Holland and Japan. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Brooklyn Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Smithsonian Institute; National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; Victoria and Albert Museum in London; the ICA London; and numerous others. In 2006, “The Art of Betty Woodman,” a retrospective of Woodman’s work, was shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.(Biography provided by Susanna Gold Gallery)
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Artist: Betty Woodman
The White & Black Set
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut/lithograph with chine collé and collage
Woodman returned to Shark's in 2015 to make her most recent print "The White & Black Set". The artist poses a set of white a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Lithograph, Woodcut
Alessandro's Room
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut/lithograph triptych with chine collé and collage, Edition 30
Since 1985, Woodman has collaborated with Master printer Bud Shark to produce monotypes, woodcuts and l...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Lithograph
Porcelain Vessels by Betty Woodman
By Betty Woodman
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Betty Woodman (American, 1930-2018)
Monoprint with gold leaf
image size - 11 x30''
frame size - 20 x 39 x 1.75"
1991
Impeccably framed!
signed “Betty Woodman, ‘91, AP1”
printed by SO...
Category
1990s Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Minoan Pitchers/Oribe Tray
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 16.
Woodman’s painterly prints make reference to the rich history of ceramics around the world, from the “Oribe Tray” monotypes, to “Etruscan Pot”, and “Iz...
Category
1980s Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Lithograph
Balustrade Vase C
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype collage/woodcut.
Since 1985, Woodman collaborated with Master printer Bud Shark to produce monotypes, woodcuts and lithographs with the same inventiveness and exubera...
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1990s Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Monotype
Pompeian Garden
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut, Edition 15.
Since 1985, Woodman collaborated with Master printer Bud Shark to produce monotypes, woodcuts and lithographs with the same inventiveness and exuberance o...
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1990s Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Woodcut
Summer Home
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with chine collé and collage, Edition 60.
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Betty Woodman January, 2, 2018
Betty Woodman was a leading American ceramist who...
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2010s Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Lithograph
A Single Joy of Song
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut/lithograph triptych, Edition 30.
A Single Joy of Song is Betty Woodman’s last print. We began discussing this project with her in 2016. She sent a large three part study that would make a wonderful woodcut. Betty made plans to come to Shark’s Ink...
Category
2010s Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Woodcut
Chinese Pleasures
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with chine collé, Edition 30.
All who saw her retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum in 2006 know….Betty Woodman's work in clay, on paper and in print, is colo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Lithograph
Kabuki Space
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut, Edition 30.
Betty Woodman’s woodcut “Kabuki Space” places images of a pair of her pots in an exuberant Japanese inspired stage-like interior. Woodman blends colors,...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Woodcut
Greek Pots Visit Edo
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut/lithograph with chine collé, Edition 30.
Betty Woodman’s lithograph/woodcut/chine collé, “Greek Pots Visit Edo”, places images of her pots...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Woodcut
Chinese Pleasures III
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype
Since 1985, Woodman has collaborated with Master printer Bud Shark to produce monotypes, woodcuts and lithographs with the same inventiveness and exuberance of her ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Monotype
Sienna
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut/lithograph with chine collé, gold leaf and collage, Edition 30
Betty Woodman is a leading American ceramist whose dazzling inventions with form and color have moved be...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Woodcut
Picking Plum Blossoms
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut with chine collé and gold leaf, Edition 30.
Picking Plum Blossoms is based on a recent triptych of ceramic vessels decorated with Japane...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Woodcut
Polka Dot Skirt
By Betty Woodman
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut/lithograph with chine collé and collage, Edition 30
Woodman's work in prints is an extension of her great interest in materials, processes and mark making. She combines various printmaking techniques and uses collage, pochoir, metal leaf and chine collé. Woodman's prints have echoed, informed and stimulated her work in clay. In her prints Woodman typically poses images of her ceramic pieces in distinctive spaces.
In her new print Polka Dot Skirt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Woodcut
Nile View by Betty Woodman(INV# NP3631)
By Betty Woodman
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Nile View (INV# NP3631)
Betty Woodman
color woodcut with chine collé
40.25 x 30”
1996
# P.P. 2/2, outside the edition of 30
signed
Category
1990s Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Driftwood
Pompeian Garden by Betty Woodman (INV# NP3632)
By Betty Woodman
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Pompeian Garden (INV# NP3632)
Betty Woodman
color woodcut
29 x 34.75”
1992
# P.P. 2/2, outside the edition of 15
signed
Category
1990s Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Woodcut
Kabuki Space by Betty Woodman (INV# NP3629)
By Betty Woodman
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Kabuki Space (INV# NP3629)
Betty Woodman
color woodcut
37 x 25”
# P.P. 2/2, outside the edition of 30
2000
signed
Betty Woodman (1930 - 2018) was a leading American ceramist whose dazzling inventions with form and color have moved beyond the traditional domain of craft and consistently challenged the limits of the medium.
Betty Woodman first became interested in crafts because her father was a woodworker. In high school, one ceramics course was sufficient to convince Woodman that she wanted to be a functional potter. Studying pottery at the School for American Craftsmen at Alfred University, she developed a strong interest in the history of ceramics. Her first job after graduating in 1950 was as a production potter, and that technical facility and experience were to be the foundation of her subsequent innovations. In 1952 Woodman traveled to Italy, where exposure to traditions such as majolica opened her eyes to the potential of clay.
It was not until the seventies that Woodman completely abandoned her functional approach. Collaborating with important figures in the Pattern and Decoration movement, such as Joyce Kozloff and Cynthia Carlson...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Woodcut
Kimono Still Life Vase by Betty Woodman (INV# NP3630)
By Betty Woodman
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Kimono Still Life Vase (INV# NP3630)
Betty Woodman
color woodcut with chine collé
27.5 x 41.5
1992
# W.P. 1/2, outside the edition of 15
signed
Category
1990s Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Woodcut
Boardwalk Vase (INV# NP3628)
By Betty Woodman
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Boardwalk Vase (INV# NP3628)
Betty Woodman
color woodcut with chine collé
37.88 x 36.75”
1998
# P.P. 2/2, outside the edition of 30
signed
Betty Woodman (1930 - 2018) was a leading American ceramist whose dazzling inventions with form and color have moved beyond the traditional domain of craft and consistently challenged the limits of the medium.
Betty Woodman first became interested in crafts because her father was a woodworker. In high school, one ceramics course was sufficient to convince Woodman that she wanted to be a functional potter. Studying pottery at the School for American Craftsmen at Alfred University, she developed a strong interest in the history of ceramics. Her first job after graduating in 1950 was as a production potter, and that technical facility and experience were to be the foundation of her subsequent innovations. In 1952 Woodman traveled to Italy, where exposure to traditions such as majolica opened her eyes to the potential of clay.
It was not until the seventies that Woodman completely abandoned her functional approach. Collaborating with important figures in the Pattern and Decoration movement, such as Joyce Kozloff and Cynthia Carlson...
Category
1990s Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Woodcut
After Mexico in Kyoto (INV# NP3627)
By Betty Woodman
Located in Morton Grove, IL
After Mexico in Kyoto (INV# NP3627)
Betty Woodman
color woodcut with chine collé
27.25 x 36.25”
1997
# P.P. 2/2, outside the edition of 30
signed
Betty Woodman (1930 - 2018) was a leading American ceramist whose dazzling inventions with form and color have moved beyond the traditional domain of craft and consistently challenged the limits of the medium.
Betty Woodman first became interested in crafts because her father was a woodworker. In high school, one ceramics course was sufficient to convince Woodman that she wanted to be a functional potter. Studying pottery at the School for American Craftsmen at Alfred University, she developed a strong interest in the history of ceramics. Her first job after graduating in 1950 was as a production potter, and that technical facility and experience were to be the foundation of her subsequent innovations. In 1952 Woodman traveled to Italy, where exposure to traditions such as majolica opened her eyes to the potential of clay.
It was not until the seventies that Woodman completely abandoned her functional approach. Collaborating with important figures in the Pattern and Decoration movement, such as Joyce Kozloff and Cynthia Carlson...
Category
1990s Contemporary Betty Woodman Art
Materials
Woodcut
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