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Kurt Wild
b. November 22, 1931
Wild Pottery
River Falls, Wisconsin
Presentation by Kurt Wild
April 8, 2003
Below are some of
Kurt Wild's work in chronological order.
Please forgive the quality of the pictures, because they were pictures taken off
the screen from Mr. Wild's presentation.
This vase is thrown off-center, which is difficult to do. The tomatoes
are glaze decals
This piece is decorated with decals Kurt made from a drawing made by a
colleague of his
This vase was done by masking off the design with a rubber electrical tape
and then brushing on black over glaze
This two piece hand thrown pot is decorated with decals. The yellow &
the decals were end of his supply & he wanted to use them up.
This piece was decorated by first applying bands of clay with a squeeze bag
then using a chisel to manipulate the clay and press into the side of the
pot used to make the vertical lines
This piece is built up of pieces that were placed inside a tube and finished
with a thrown top.
This piece is built up
of pieces that were placed inside a tube and finished with a thrown top.
This anniversary plate, which he made for himself, is decorated by using
printing press type. It was typical of some of the commissioned work
he did.
This mug was made by applying multiple layers of "press apply" dots as a
stick-on mask and then spraying underglazes.
The blackness on all of the blackware pieces is the result of exposing pots
to smoke at the end of the firing, usually by smothering them in sawdust.
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