Otto Heino Listed Ceramist Hand Formed American Studio Bowl Signed

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Otto Heino(c1915-2009) Master Listed Ceramist American Studio Art Pottery Bowl. Multi-Colored Salt Glaze Hand Formed Bowl. Signed & Dated on Bottom. EXCELLENT CONDITION! MEASURES: 7 1/4" x 2". PLEASE WAIT FOR INVOICE!------Otto Heino (April 20, 1915 - July 16, 2009) and Vivika Heino (June 27, 1910 - September 1, 1995) were artists working in ceramics. They collaborated as a husband-and-wife team for thirty-five years, signing their pots Vivika + Otto, regardless of who actually made them.One of twelve children born of Finnish immigrants, Lena and August Heino, in East Hampton, Connecticut, United States. His family ran a dairy farm in quiet farm country. Otto Heino's involvement with ceramics began while serving in the U.S. Air Force in England; during a military leave, he spent several days watching Bernard Leach throw pots. Following his return to the US, he used his GI Bill funding in 1949 to study ceramics at the League of New Hampshire Arts and Crafts, in Concord, New Hampshire. There he met Vivika, his teacher, whom he was married to in 1950.Otto Heino died of acute renal failure at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, California on July 16, 2009.[Gold Medal from the Sixth Biennale internationale de céramique d'art, in Vallauris, France. (1978)Silver Medal from the International Ceramics Exhibitions in Ostend, Belgium (1 read more

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