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1887 Hong Kong, China - 1979. Known for: Ceramics pottery, portrait and landscape painting, etching, teaching.
Bernard Howell Leach, CBE, CH (5 January 1887 - 6 May 1979), was a British studio potter and art teacher. He is regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery". Leach was born in Hong Kong and... Read full biography
Bernard Howell Leach, CBE, CH (5 January 1887 - 6 May 1979), was a British studio potter and art teacher. He is regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery". Leach was born in Hong Kong and brought up in the Far East. His father was a colonial judge in Hong Kong and his maternal grandparents... Read full biography
Bernard Howell Leach, CBE, CH (5 January 1887 - 6 May 1979), was a British studio potter and art teacher. He is regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery". Leach was born in Hong Kong and brought up in the Far East. His father was a colonial judge in Hong Kong and his maternal grandparents were missionaries in Japan. As a young man he studied etching at the London School of Art before settling in Japan where he became fascinated with pottery and studied under the great master Kenzan.... Read full biography
Bernard Howell Leach, CBE, CH (5 January 1887 - 6 May 1979), was a British studio potter and art teacher. He is regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery". Leach was born in Hong Kong and brought up in the Far East. His father was a colonial judge in Hong Kong and his maternal grandparents were missionaries in Japan. As a young man he studied etching at the London School of Art before settling in Japan where he became fascinated with pottery and studied under the great master Kenzan. Leach was born in Hong Kong, but spent his young adult years in Japan where he came into contact with a group of young Japanese art lovers who called themselves Shirakaba. Through them he learned about William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement.... Read full biography
Bernard Howell Leach, CBE, CH (5 January 1887 - 6 May 1979), was a British studio potter and art teacher. He is regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery". Leach was born in Hong Kong and brought up in the Far East. His father was a colonial judge in Hong Kong and his maternal grandparents were missionaries in Japan. As a young man he studied etching at the London School of Art before settling in Japan where he became fascinated with pottery and studied under the great master Kenzan. Leach was born in Hong Kong, but spent his young adult years in Japan where he came into contact with a group of young Japanese art lovers who called themselves Shirakaba. Through them he learned about William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement. It was in Japan that Leach began potting under the direction of Shigekichi Urano (Kenzan VI) and befriended a young potter named Shoj... Read full biography
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Keywords (18)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
Art Media
- •Art Pottery
- •Clay, Earthenware Vessels
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Ink
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Stoneware, Stone, Stonecut, Sandstone
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Cornwall, England
Art Association
- •Chicago Society of Etchers
Art School
- •Slade School of Art, London, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
- •Arts and Crafts Movement, Late 19th/Early 20th Centuries