Susie Cooper

by Alan Marshall

Overview

During her sixty-five-year career, Susie Cooper introduced more than 4,500 ceramic patterns and shapes, making her one of the most prolific, versatile and influential designers the industry has ever seen. Between the 1920s and 1980s she moved from the bold hand-painting of the 'Jazz Age' through delicate wash banding and aerograph techniques to sophisticated lithographic transfer printing on both earthenware and bone china. Cooper not only led the charge of gifted female designers in the male-dominated Potteries but also pioneered the role of women in factory management. Alan Marshall here charts her progress from the creation of patterns for Gray's Pottery in the 1920s, to running her own Susie Cooper Productions from the 1930s to the 1950s, and designing for Wedgwood from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780747813316
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	03/10/2013
Series:	Shire Library , #719
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	64
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Alan Marshall and Marion Scott own one of the biggest private collections of Susie Cooper ceramics and are full-time writers and editors, producing magazines, books and brochures.
?Alan Marshall is an art and antiques writer with a passion for contemporary ceramics. A former editor of Pottery&Porcelain Collector magazine, he and his wife own a large collection of British studio pottery and tableware, dominated by one of the world's largest private collections of Susie Cooper ware.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Potteries Born and Bred / Bringing Colour to Gray's / Her Own Business / The Leaping Deer / The Kestrel Years / Pressed Into Printing / A New Start / Later Years / Further Information / Index