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  • Luster Chalice with Ten Handles (1982)

    Beatrice Wood

    Beatrice Wood was a singular master of luster-glaze ceramics. From early in her career through the late 1990s she experimented with luster to create exquisite, varied surfaces. Wood often revisited iconic and historical vessel forms in her work, but made them her own. This work is an example of her continuing fascination with the chalice. From functional drinking vessels to whimsical, large-scale goblets, we can see not only her throwing and glazing skill but her irrepressible creativity, imagination, and sense of humor.

    Permanent Collection, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts and Happy Valley Foundation. Photograph by Tony Cunha © Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts/Happy Valley Foundation

  • Turquoise and Copper Bottle (Date unknown)

    Beatrice Wood



    Permanent Collection, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts and Happy Valley Foundation. Photograph by Tony Cunha © Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts/Happy Valley Foundation

  • Beatrice Wood (date unknown)

    Beatrice Wood

    In her later years, Beatrice Wood was recognized for the cultivation of an artistic persona, which included wearing saris and Indian jewelry.

    Photograph by Tony Cunha

  • Career Women (1990)

    Beatrice Wood


    Earthenware 19 1/2 x 12 1/2 in
    Collection of Dr. and Mrs. William P. Klein, Newport Beach, California © Beatrice Wood Foundation

  • Fish Platter (c. 1970)

    Beatrice Wood


    Earthenware 15 1/2 x 23 3/4 x 3 in
    Scripps College, Claremont, California. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marer © Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts/Happy Valley Foundation

  • Gold and Turquoise Luster Vase (1970)

    Beatrice Wood



    Permanent Collection, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts and Happy Valley Foundation. Photograph by Tony Cunha © Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts/Happy Valley Foundation

  • Gold Luster Bowl with Twelve Gold Luster Figures (1985)

    Beatrice Wood



    Permanent Collection, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts and Happy Valley Foundation. Photograph by Tony Cunha © Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts/Happy Valley Foundation

  • Low-Necked Vase (ca. 1977)

    Beatrice Wood


    Earthenware 5 5/6 x 6 1/4 x 6 1/8 in
    Scripps College, Claremont, California. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marer. Photograph by Susan Einstein © Beatrice Wood Foundation

  • Mr. and Mrs. Teapot (1980)

    Beatrice Wood



    Permanent Collection, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts and Happy Valley Foundation. Photograph by Tony Cunha © Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts/Happy Valley Foundation

  • Vessel (1972-73)

    Beatrice Wood


    Glazed stoneware 5 1/2 x 4 x 4 in
    Scripps College, Claremont, California. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marer. Photograph by Susan Einstein © Beatrice Wood Foundation

  • Chocolate and Young Men (ca. 1990-93)

    Beatrice Wood

    Beatrice Wood often credited her longevity with the prescence of chocolate and young men. This figurative sculpture puts her addage into physical form.


    Earthenware 21 x 10 1/2 in
    Collection of Dr. and Mrs. William P. Klein, Newport Beach, California © Beatrice Wood Foundation

  • Large Gold Luster Teapot (date unknown)

    Beatrice Wood


    Glazed earthenware 14 x 141/2 x 9 in
    New Mexico Museum of Art, Bequest of Rick Dillingham Estate, 1994. Photograph by Blair Clark © New Mexico Museum of Art, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts/Happy Valley Foundation

  • Footed Bowl (1965)

    Beatrice Wood


    Ceramic 10 1/8 x 8 7/8 in. (without base)
    Gift of the Artist to the Ala Story Collection © Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts/Happy Valley Foundation

  • Evening at the Arensbergs (1930)

    Beatrice Wood

    Starting in 1917, Beatrice Wood became an integral part of the Dada artists group. Louise and Walter Arensberg were the major patrons of the movement and held frequent salons and meetings in their home, documented here in Wood's drawing.


    Watercolor, ink, and graphite on paper
    Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist, 1978 © Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts/Happy Valley Foundation

  • Two-Handled Jug (date unknown)

    Beatrice Wood


    Luster-glazed earthenware 8 1/2 x 71/8 x 8 1/8 in
    Collection of Forrest L. Merrill. Photograph by M. Lee Fatherree

  • Miniature Vessels (1980)

    Beatrice Wood


    Earthenware
    Collection of Forrest L. Merrill. Photograph by M. Lee Fatherree © Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts/Happy Valley Foundation

  • Chalice (ca. 1987)

    Beatrice Wood


    Luster glazed earthenware 9.5 x 9.5 in
    Collection of Juliet Myers © Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts/Happy Valley Foundation

  • Doubled Handled Bowl (1987)

    Beatrice Wood


    Earthenware 5.25 x 9 in
    Collection of Carol and Arthur Goldberg, New York, New York © Beatrice Wood Center fir the Arts/Happy Valley Foundation

  • Bowl (date unknown)

    Beatrice Wood


    Earthenware 8.75 x 8 in
    Bequest of the Rick Dillingham Estate, 1994 © Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts/Happy Valley Foundation

  • Copper Red Teapot (Date unknown)

    Beatrice Wood


    Glazed earthenware 7 x 6 x 3 in
    Bequest of the estate of Rick Dillingham, 1994 © Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts/Happy Vally Foundation

Santa Monica Museum of Art

Beatrice Wood: Career Woman-Drawings, Paintings, Vessels, and Objects

Beatrice Wood is a figure worth reexamining as a reflection of the developments and changes in the artistic and cultural milieu of Southern California throughout the 1900s. Career Woman, a comprehensive survey of this seminal California artist, offers a scholarly, commemorative evaluation of Wood, whose extraordinary life and work traversed the entire 20th century. Featuring more than 90 artworks, the exhibition will trace the arc of Wood's career from her early immersion in the Dada movement through her mature work as a ceramic artist, and will survey all media of her production, with a particular emphasis on clay.
09/10/2011 – 02/25/2012
Santa Monica Museum of Art
Bergamot Station Arts Center, G-1
2525 Michigan Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90403