American Art Collaborative

“Beatrice Wood combines her colors like a painter, makes them vibrate like a musician. They have strength even while iridescent and transparent. They have rhythm and the luster both of jewels and of human eyes. Water poured from one of her jars would taste like wine.” Anais Nin quoted in Artforum, January 196
The spouts of this bottle look like two human figures, holding hands across the round body that separates them. Beatrice Wood included relief sculptures of fish, one of her favorite animals to sculpt, and a lion’s head on the jar, which has been glazed in blue and purple luster. Wood began to decorate the surfaces of her pots with relief sculptures after encountering pots finished in this style during a trip to India in 1962