Esoteric Survey

Lot 123 Jean Balmer, Untitled Balmer, Boyd & Stewart By Dave Hampton Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the work of June Schwarcz, Kay Whitcomb and the Woolleys was exhibited repeatedly in the Pasadena Museum of Art's exhibition series California Design .  Jean Balmer Terrace Bottle, California Design 9 Pacific Beach-based potter Jean Balmer exhibited ceramics in California Design 9 . For California Design 10 , held in 1968, the prolific San Diego potter David Stewart contributed an elaborate handmade chess set. Described as a "limited production" item, it had ceramic pieces rendered in green and white animal forms on a tile surface playing board. David Stewart Chess Set, California Design 10 Stewart was studying sculpture at San Diego State in 1959 on the GI Bill when he saw a show of Marguerite Wildenhain's pottery organized by Martha Longenecker in the campus art department. He chanced upon Wildenhain in the parking lot and chatted with the Bauhaus master potter b...

  I finally got my hands on a Magnet Master. Well, two of them. The 900 and 400 models. Arthur and Reno Carrara designed the Magnet Master in 1947. It was distributed by The Walker Art Center and promoted through their Everyday Art Quarterly.  Arthur was an architect-designer based in Chicago. Reno was his brother.  Arthur is in the middle. Source: Everyday Art Quarterly, Summer 1948 Seen in action in Everyday Arts Quarterly Also seen back in the day on Reference Library. More books JHQ, Jean Balmer and Enzo Mari It's always great to get more Balmer in my life. Tape measure with the Alexander Girard designed No-Sag logo. 

  I stayed local this weekend.  I guess that made my chances better for finding a Jean Balmer. It's a nice one too.

  Slim pickings but at least it was two of my favorites... Jean Balmer Jack Boyd

  Jack Boyd sculpture, a bench and ceramics by Jean Balmer and Adam Silverman More desert picking. The Boyd isn't for sale, but the house is... Kaufmann Desert House by Richard Neutra Source: Wall Street Journal

Crafting Opportunity: Mid-Century Work from the Collection of Mingei International Museum Crafting Opportunity , an exhibition of ceramics, furniture, fashion, fiber art, jewelry, and metalwork, explores the robust artistic output that followed World War II. Many of the works, selected from Mingei International Museum’s permanent collection, are on view for the first time. Harrison McIntosh Marg Loring owl and Jean Balmer birds. Wayne Chapman weed pots. Gifts from Dave and Gayle. One of Mingei's nice Eames LCWs. Did you know that San Diego played a role in the Eames development of bent plywood?  Read about it here . Beatrice Wood Marcia Lewis Mingei is closed for renovation, so this exhibition will be on view at the   SAN DIEGO CENTRAL LIBRARY ART GALLERY , located at 330 Park Blvd. San Diego, CA 92101 The exhibition closes July 28, 2019

La Gardo Tackett Anyone seen this one before? It looks like some sort of VKG contraption. Another California Design catalog This one is pretty special. It belonged to one of my favorite potters, Jean Balmer.

Stan Hawk, Glenn of California, Danish vase and “The Anchor” magazine holder by Seymour Robins Jean Balmer, Doyle Lane, and Martha Longenecker Smalls California Designed (1956) Fiber