Bennett bean biography

Bennett Bean (born March 25, 1941) is an American ceramic artist.
Bennett Bean is best known for his thrown and altered white earthenware vessels, particularly non-functional bowls and teapots.
(American, born 1941) Bennet Bean is a New Jersey-based artist.

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Bennett Bean

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Arkansas Art Center, Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas

Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa

Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee

JB Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Longhouse Foundation Collection, East Hampton, New York

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina

Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York

Museum of Arts & Sciences, Macon, Georgia

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey

New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey

Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Ph

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Robert Bennett Bean

Robert Bennett Bean (March 24, 1874 in Gala, Virginia^[1] –1944) was an associate professor of anatomy and ethnologist adept to craniometry and the concept of "race", whose scientific work was discredited by his mentor but who nonetheless became a professor at the University of Virginia and remained so until his death.^[2]

Life and career

Bean, through his mother, was descended from the First Families of Virginia, including colonist and land owner William Randolph. He studied medicine and anatomy and obtained a B.S. in medicine, followed by an M.D. in anatomy in 1904.

Career

Bean became a professor of anatomy at numerous universities, including the University of Michigan (1905–1907), the Philippine Medical School of Manila (1908) and the Tulane University of Louisiana (1910–1916). In 1916 he accepted a position as an associate professor at the University of Virginia and remained so until his death. He became the councilor of the American Anthropological Association in 1919 and was also a regional chairman for the Amer

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Bennett BeanBlairstown, New Jersey

Biography

Bennett Bean is a quintessential American polymath. He is best known as a ceramic artist (for his treatment of vessels post firing); but works in a range of media including stone, precious metals, wool and silk weaving, paper, parchment and painting. He was formally trained in fine art and has been making things, prolifically, since 1960, full time in studio for the last 25 years. His work is represented by numerous galleries as well as in major museum collections nationwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the White House Art Collection.

Statement

To understand an object I want to connect with it, to live with it, to have it around me. I’ll buy one if I can afford it but some things don’t exist anywhere but in my head. Those I have to make. In making I learn what’s there. The things I make influence what I buy and the things I buy influence what I make. From this process objects accumulate. Then comes the problem of “putting a thing in the world.” How do you present a pot, a painting, a piece of sculpture? Y