Ruth Duckworth
1919 - 2009
Solo Exhibitions
| 2015 | Ruth Duckworth, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
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| 2013 | Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
| 2012 | Ruth Duckworth, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
| 2010 | Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
| 2009 | Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, Wales |
| 2007 | Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., USA |
| 2006 | Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California, USA Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
| 2005 | Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA Cultural Center of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, USA Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York, USA |
| 2004 | Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
| 2003 | Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 2002 | Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York, USA |
| 2000 | Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Galerie b15, Munich, Germany |
| 1999 | Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York, USA |
| 1996 | Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York, USA Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
| 1994 | Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseum, Rendsburg, Germany |
| 1993 | Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Keramik-Galerie Bowig, Hannover, Germany |
| 1992 | Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA Pewabic Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA |
| 1991 | Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York, USA Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
| 1990 | Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York, USA |
| 1989 | Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA |
| 1987 | Society of Arts and Crafts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 1986 | Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Contemporary Art Center, London, UK |
| 1984 | Exhibit A, Chicago, Illinois, USA Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois, USA |
| 1982 | Exhibit A, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1980 | Exhibit A, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1979 | Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1978 | Hadler Gallery, New York, New York, USA |
| 1977 | Exhibit A, Evanston, Illinois, USA |
| 1976 | Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1974 | Calvary School of Art, Alberta, Canada |
| 1973 | Kunstkammer Ludger Koster, Mönchengladbach, Germany |
| 1972 | Jacques Barach Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1967 | Primavera, London, UK Matsuya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1966 | Chicago Public Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA Gallery Mid-North, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1965 | Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA Craftsmen's Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA Agra Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA |
| 1964 | Arnolfini, Bristol, UK |
| 1962 | Primavera, London, UK |
| 1960 | Primavera, London, UK |
| 1953 | Apollinaire Gallery, London, UK |
Group Exhibitions
| 2020 | TEA BOWLS BY 9 ARTISTS, Online Exhibition, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
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| 2019 | Winter Exhibition, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
| 2018 | British Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
| 2017 | Twelve Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
| 2016 | International Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
| 2015 | 20th Century Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
| 2014 | Black and White, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Classic & Contemporary Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
| 2013 | Hans Coper, Ruth Duckworth and Lucie Rie, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Paintings & Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Four Women and a Kosuth, James Barron Art, New York, New York, USA |
| 2010 | A Rough Equivalent: Sculpture and Pottery in the Post-War Period, Leeds Art Gallery, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK |
| 2003 | 21st Century Ceramics: An extensive survey of the best of current work in the United States and Canada, Colombus, Ohio, USA |
| 2002 | Modernism & Beyond, The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada Contemporary American Ceramics 1950 -1990, A Survey of American Objects and Vessels, The National Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan Material: Earth-Size, Small Ceramic Sculpture, Kunstforum Kirchberg, Kirchberg, Switzerland |
| 2001 | 6th Triennale de la Porcelaine, Invited Master, Nyon, Switzerland Shaping the Future with Earth, World Ceramic Exposition, Kyoung Gee Do, Korea |
| 2000 | Color and Fire, Defining Moments of Contemporary Ceramics 1950 - 2000, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA Ceramic National 2000, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, USA |
| 1999 | Artisti dal Mondi, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy A Fire for Ceramics - Contemporary Art from the Daniel Jacobs and Derek Mason Collection, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, Virginia, USA 1- Chicago Artists, Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture & Design, Chicago, Illinois, USA Third Survey of Abstract Art in Chicago, Klein Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA The Art of Craft: Works from the Saxe Collection, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California, USA Toronto Collects Contemporary Ceramics, The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada Clay into Art: Selections from the Contemporary Ceramics Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA |
| 1998 | Sculpture Objects Functional Art, Armory Building, New York, New York, USA 1998 NCECA Honors & Fellows Exhibition, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA The Regis Master Series Exhibition, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
| 1997 | Sculpture Pier Walk 1997, Navy Pier Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA Survey, Pewabic Society, Detroit, Michigan, USA Ceramics of the 20th Century, Paderborn, Germany Crossing the Threshold, 1997 Invitational, Greene Street, New York, New York, USA (USA Tour) Art Biennale 1997 - Between Similarity and Difference, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea |
| 1996 | Primavera, Pioneering Craft and Design 1945 -1995, The Fitzwilliam Museum, and Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, Cambridge and Paisley, UK Art in Chicago, 1945 - 1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA The Nude in Clay, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA Saga Prefectural Art Museum Exhibition, International Academy of Ceramics, Saga, Japan Total Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jangheung, Korea |
| 1995 | Contemporary Porcelain, 31 Artists from 12 Countries, Bowig Gallery, Hannover, Germany Pandora's Box and the Tradition of Clay, British Crafts Council Gallery, London, UK Primavera, Pioneering Craft and Design 1945 - 1995, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, UK |
| 1994 | The Ritual Vessel, Traditions Intertwined, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA Current Trends in Ceramics, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Aichi, Japan Chicago: The Third Dimension, Seven Chicago Sculptors, The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA International Fine Ceramics at Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset, UK |
| 1993 | Chicago Invitational, First Union League Club Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois, USA Abstract Sculpture, Klein Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1992 | Built, Thrown and Touches Contemporary Clay Works, United States Tour, 1992-95 Ruth Duckworth/John McQueen, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York, USA 5 x 7, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, New York, USA Triennale de la Porcelaine, (Invited Master), Nyon, Switzerland |
| 1991 | Walls: Large Scale Ceramic Sculpture, Eight Variations, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah, USA Scale-Detail, Habitat/Shaw Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA |
| 1990 | Craft USA, American Craft Museum, New York, New York, USA (World Three-Year Tour) Art in Churches Exhibition - Bar Convent York, Kent, UK Tokyo Art International, Toyko, Japan The Ceramic Vessel, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois, USA Clay, Colour, Content, 28th Ceramic Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, USA |
| 1988 | Splendid Forms '88', Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Ton un Ton, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma (USA and Japan Tour) |
| 1987 | Ceramics in Architecture, Drawing, Sketches, and Models, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA Craft Today, Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York, USA and USA Tour Twentieth Century Studio Ceramics, Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury, UK Form und Glasur '88', Galerie Jahrhunderthalle Hoeschst, Frankfurt, Germany A Fine Place to Work: The Legacy of Archie Bray Foundation, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA Architectural Art, Affirming the Design Relationship, The American Craft Museum, New York, New York, USA |
| 1986 | Chicago Fire, La Galerie Centre de Céramique, Bonsecours, Vieux-Montreal, Canada |
| 1985 | Pottery Questions II, Broward College, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA |
| 1984 | Stuff and Spirit, Twining Gallery, New York, New York, USA Women in Clay, Octagon Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA Ten Years of Collecting at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA Modern Master Ceramics, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Histories, Exhibit A, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1983 | Architectural Ceramics, Elements Gallery, New York, New York, USA Prime Evidence, Exhibit A, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1982 | Travelling Porcelain, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., USA |
| 1979 | Two Artists (Ruth Duckworth & Claire Zeisler), Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 1976 | Europäische Keramik der Gegenwart, Frechen, Germany American Crafts, An Aesthetic View, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1975 | More British Potters, No. 2, Primavera, Cambridge, UK Kunstkammer Ludger Koster, Six German Ceramists, (guest), Mönchengladbach, Germany |
| 1974 | World Craft Exhibition, Calgary, Canada Three Artists, Gustavus Adolphus College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA Students' Choice Exhibit, Four Potters, Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA Towards Ceramic Sculpture, Oxford Gallery, Oxford, UK |
| 1973 | More British Potters, Primavera, Cambridge, UK Ceramic Art of the World, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Five Women, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, Illinois, USA |
| 1972 | Porcelain, Eight Potters, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Wisconsin, USA British Potters, Primavera, Cambridge, UK International Academy of Ceramics, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK |
| 1970 | Exhibition 70, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA |
| 1969 | Three Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1968 | Nippo Gendai Bijutsuka, Kyoto, Japan The Egg and The Eye, Porcelain Exhibition, Los Angeles, California, USA Objects: USA, touring throughout the USA and Europe |
| 1967 | International Crafts, Istanbul, Turkey |
| 1965 | 14 Artists, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois, USA |
| 1964 | British Ceramics, Copenhagen, Denmark International Ceramics Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1962 | International Handicrafts Exhibition, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1961 | British Studio Potters, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
Major Commissions
| 2008 | Attendant Spirit, 15' Bronze Sculpture, State of Illinois Commission, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois, USA Untitled, Porcelain Sculpture, Private Commission, New York, New York, USA |
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| 2007 | Untitled, Porcelain Wall Mural, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
| 2004 | Serenity, 15' Bronze Sculpture, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 2003 | Untitled, Two 8' Figures for Private Collection, Gunnison, Colorado, USA |
| 1999 | Cows on Parade, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1998 | Spirit of Survival, Public Commission, Bronze Sculpture, 15' high, State of Illinois Commission, Lewis and Clark Community College, Godfrey, Illinois, USA |
| 1992 | The Guardian, Bronze Sculpture, 10'2" High, State of Illinois Building, State Commission, Rockford, Illinois, USA |
| 1990 | Untitled, Stoneware Wall Mural, Palm Beach Airport Terminal, Palm Beach, Florida, USA |
| 1988 | Cloud Formation, Stowell, Cook, Frolichstein, Inc., Clearwater, Florida, USA |
| 1987 | Untitled, Porcelain Entryway, St.Mary's Church, Walsingham, UK |
| 1987 | Untitled, Porcelain Entryway, St. Mary's Church, Walsingham, UK |
| 1986 | Untitled, Porcelain Wall Mural, Unisys Offices, New York, New York, USA |
| 1985 | Untitled, Porcelain Wall Mural, Private Collection, Northfield, Illinois, USA Untitled, Porcelain Wall Mural, 70 sq. ft., State of Illinois Building, Capitol Development Board, Springfield, Illinois, USA |
| 1984 | Untitled, Porcelain Wall Mural, 27 sq. ft., Teradyne Central, Deerfield, Illinois, USA Untitled, Stoneware Wall Mural, 110 sq. ft., Dr. R. Lee Animal Care Center, Commissioned by the Chicago Council on Fine Arts, 1/2% for the Arts Program, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1983 | Untitled, Stoneware Wall Mural, 67 sq. ft., Amcore Bank, Rockford, Illinois, USA |
| 1982 | Untitled, Stoneware Wall Mural, Main Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA Untitled, Porcelain Wall Mural, Perkins & Will Architecture Offices, Chicago, Illinois, USA (2 commissions) The Creation, Stoneware Wall Mural, 300 sq. ft., Congregation Beth Israel, Hammond, Indiana, USA |
| 1981 | Untitled, Stoneware Wall Mural, Rozansky and Kay Company, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Untitled, Porcelain Wall Mural, Sonnenschein, Carlin, North and Rosenthal Offices, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1979 | Untitled, Stoneware Wall Mural, Private Collection, Glencoe, Illinois, USA Untitled, Porcelain Wall Mural, Private Collection, Highland Park, Illinois, USA |
| 1978 | Untitled, Stoneware Mural on Board, Two Panels, Hodag Chemical Company, Skokie, Illinois, USA (transferred to Lewis & Clark Community College, Godfrey, Illinois, USA in 1998) |
| 1976 | Clouds Over Lake Michigan, Stoneware Mural, 240 sq. ft., Dresdner Bank, Board of Trade Building, Chicago, Illinois (moved to Options Exchange Building Lobby, Chicago, Illinois, USA in 1987) |
| 1972 | Untitled, Sculpture, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, USA |
| 1969 | Untitled, Private Collection, Aspar, Colorado, USA |
| 1968 | Earth, Water, and Sky, Stoneware Mural, 400 sq. feet entrance way to the Laboratory for Geophysical Science Building, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1965 | Ritual Objects, Menorah, Solel Synagogue, Highland Park, Illinois, USA |
| 1960 | 14 Stations of the Cross, St Joseph's Church, New Malden, UK |
Selected Major Collections
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Buckingham County Museum, Buckinghamshire, England
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin, USA
City Museum, Bassano del Grappa, Italy
County Museum, Buckinghamshire County Council, Buckinghamshire, England
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, USA
Inner London Education Committee Collection, London, England
Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Mills College, Oakland, California, USA
Museum August Kestner, Hannover, Germany
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Museum für Moderne Keramik, Deidesheim, Germany
Museum für Zeitgenössische Keramische Kunst, Frechen, Germany
The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, New York, USA
Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Germany
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C., USA
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Windsor Castle, Windsor, England
York Museums Trust, York, England
Selected Honours and Awards
| 2003 | Visionary Award, Lifetime Achievement, Museum of Arts & Design, NYC, USA Arts in Education Award, Art in Teaching, Chicago, Illinois, USA Distinguished Artist of Year, Beaux-Arts Celebration, Union League, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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| 2001 | Master of the Medium Award, Gold Medal, Renwick Art Alliance, USA |
| 1999 | The Madigan Prize, State of Illinois, Best Sculpture of the Year Award, USA |
| 1998 | Ruth Duckworth Ceramic Scholarship Fund, established at Lewis & Clark College, USA |
| 1996 | National Society of Arts and Letters, Gold Medal, National Career Award |
| 1993 | American Craft Fellow Award, 25 years of Leadership, Gold Medal |
| 1992 | Triennale de la Porcelaine, Nyon, Switzerland, 1992 (first American ever invited) |
| 1982 | DePaul University, Honorary Doctorate Degree |
| 1981 | Fellow of the American Craft Council |
| 1973 | Ceramic Art of the World, Gold Medal, Calgary, Canada |
Professions
| 1994-2002 | Lectures |
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| 1972-93 | Various Workshops and Seminars |
| 1968-77 | University of Chicago, Dept. of Arts, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1965 | Corsham School of Art, UK (Visiting Artist) |
| 1964-66 | University of Chicago, Dept. of Arts, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1959-64 | Central School of Arts & Crafts, London, UK |
Education
| 2007 | Honorary Doctorate Degree, College of Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan, USA |
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| 1982 | Honorary Doctorate Degree, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1956-58 | Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, UK |
| 1955 | Hammersmith School of Art (Ceramics) |
| 1936-40 | Liverpool School of Art (Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture) |