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RUPERT DEESE
b.1924

Rupert J. Deese graduated from  Pomona College in 1950 and, while at Claremont Graduate School in California, taught at the Mt. San Antonio College.  From 1964 to 1983 he designed dinnerware forms and patterns for Franciscan Pottery Inc. , never abandoning the wheel at his studio.  Upon his retirement from Franciscan, his creative energies brought forth experimental glazes and an unerring aesthetic for pure function.

Deese’s stoneware is ripe with organic forms, radiating patterns, lustrous glazes and seductive burnished surfaces.  He is stimulated to solve the problems in innovative design and decoration of his high fired pots, always attentive to  the useful qualities of each piece.
 

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Exhibitions at Tobey C. Moss Gallery:

2003	Rupert J. Deese: Stoneware
2001	Rupert J. Deese: Stoneware
2000	Rupert J. Deese: Off the Wall
1996	Four Friends: Rupert Deese, James Hueter, Sam Maloof, Harrison McIntosh

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