Murray Staite William Haslam Malcolm (1 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very good. 19 x 25cm 96pp very good hardback in dust jacket. Contents include: The Yeoman Pottery 1915-1919 and Murray's Teaching and Influence, all supported by colour plus black and white reproductions. William Staite Murray was born in Deptford, London and attended pottery classes at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts from 1909 - 1912. He worked with Cuthbert Hamilton, a member of the Vorticist group,at the Yeoman Pottery in Kensington before joining the army in 1915. In 1919, after his military service, he set up his own pottery in Rotherhithe, London in the premises of his brother's engineering and foundry works. Although initially influenced by the avant-garde art of the time he became increasingly interested in early Chinese ceramics, under the influence of which he began making high-fired stoneware in an oil-fired kiln.