![]() ![]() In 1935, Wood left New York for Los Angeles and opened her first ceramic studio. Wood, who lived in New York, met Duchamp because of the 1913 Armory Show and, in her 1985 The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood: I Shock Myself, claims authorship of the famous quote written in defense of Duchamp’s infamous 1917 readymade sculpture, the urinal Fountain: “The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.” Famously called the "Mama of Dada," she considered herself an accidental artist, encouraged in her pursuit of an unconventional life by her close association with artists of the Dada movement, especially Marcel Duchamp. A painter, draftsman, and author, Beatrice Wood is best known for her figurative ceramic sculptures and for vessels such as this luster-glazed bottle ringed with intertwined figures. ![]()
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