310: WAYNE HIGBY, Viewpoint Bay from the Landscape series < Post-War Ceramics, 13 April 2023 < Auctions

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Wayne Higby
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Viewpoint Bay from the Landscape series

USA, c. 1980
glazed and raku-fired earthenware 10¼ h × 18⅝ w × 16¼ d in (26 × 47 × 41 cm)

estimate: $2,500–3,500

result: $4,032

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Impressed artist's chop mark near base.
provenance: Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia | Acquired from the previous in 1983 by the present owner
exhibited: Directions in Contemporary American Ceramics, 1984, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | The Perfect Collection, 4 April - 3 July 2004, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

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The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby

Wayne Higby, an accomplished ceramist, longtime professor at the NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and director of Alfred’s Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, has been working with clay since the 1960s. In this interview, filmed for a retrospective exhibition of his work in 2015 at the University of Rochester, he discusses the impetus behind his creations.