Posted 5 months ago
basdgl
(22 items)
Sheldon Stanley Holtz Jr.
1937 - 2024. After receiving his MFA degree in 1971, he opened a studio called the Stoneware Pottery in the Treehouse art enclave on LaLoma Avenue in Modesto, California. In his ceramic studio, Stan developed his own unique style of stoneware with his own ash-based copper and iron glazes that made his ceramic pieces distinctive and unique. Stan was an active member of the Association of Clay and Class Artists of CA, the Sacramento Potters Group, and the San Joaquin Potters Guild, as well as a student of noted California ceramic artist, Ruth Rippon, an accomplished artist who played a major role in lifting the craft of ceramics into the realm of fine art. She was an early innovator of the sgraffito-through-engobe technique and incorporated it into many of her heralded pieces. Stan was a respected ceramic artist known statewide.
Material: Stoneware
Method: Thrown
Technique: green/yellow glaze over a gray underglaze with a calligraphic wax resist design.
5.5” x 4.25”, 1972
Derek Lincoln Collection
