1919 Born in Hamburg, Germany
1936-40 Liverpool School of Art
(Drawing, Painting, and
Sculpture)
1955 Hammersmith School of Art (Ceramics)
1956-58 Central School of Arts & Crafts, London, England
1982 Honorary Doctorate Degree, DePaul University, Chicago,
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1959-64 Central School of Arts & Crafts, London, England
1964-66 University of Chicago, Dept. of Arts
1965 Corsham School of Art, England (Visiting Artist)
1968-77 University of Chicago, Dept. of Arts
1972-93 Various Workshops and Seminars
1994- Lectures
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1953 Appolinaire Gallery, London, England
1960 Primavera, London, England
1962 Primavera, London, England
1964 Arnolfini, Bristol, England
1965 Renaissance Society, University of Chicago
Craftsmen's Gallery, Chicago, IL
Agra Gallery, Washington D.C.
1966 The Chicago Public Library
Gallery Mid-North, Chicago
1967 Primavera, London, England
Matsuya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
1972 Jacques Barach Gallery, Chicago
1973 Kunstkammer Ludger Koster, Monchen-Gladbach, Germany
1974 Calvary School of Art, Alberta, Canada
1976 Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
1977 Exhibit A, Evanston, IL
1978 Hadler Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1980 Exhibit A, Chicago
1982 Exhibit A, Chicago
1984 Exhibit A, Chicago
Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
1986 Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia
Contemporary Art Center, London, England
1987 Society of Art in Crafts, Pittsburgh
1989 Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, California
1990 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1992 Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco
Pewabic Gallery, Detroit
1993 Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Keramik-Galerie Bowig, Hannover, Germany
1994 Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco
Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseum, Rendsburg, Germany
1996 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1999 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
galerie b15, Munich, Germany
2002 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago
2004 Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY
2005 Cultural Center of Chicago, Chicago
2005 Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
2006 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2006 Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS(Selected List)
1961 "British Studio Potters", Rotterdam, Netherlands
1962 "International Handicrafts Exhibition", Stuttgart, Germany
1964 "British Ceramics", Copenhagen, Denmark
"International Ceramics Exhibition", Tokyo, Japan
1965 "14 Artists", Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
1967 "International Crafts", Istanbul, Turkey
1968 "Nippo Gendai Bijutsuka", Kyoki, Japan
"The Egg and The Eye", Porcelain Exhibition, Los Angeles
"Objects: USA", travelling throughout USA and Europe
1969 "Three Artists", Art Institute of Chicago
1970 "Exhibition 70", Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH
1972 "Porcelain, Eight Potters", University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI
"British Potters", Primavera, Cambridge, England
"International Academy of Ceramics", Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
1973 "More British Potters", Primavera, Cambridge, England
"Ceramic Art of the World", Calgary, Alberta, Canada
"Five Women", Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, IL
1974 "World Craft Exhibition", Calgary, Canada
"Three Artists", Gustavus Adolphus College, Northfield, MN
"Students' Choice Exhibit, Four Potters", Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr, PA
"Towards Ceramic Sculpture", Oxford Gallery, Oxford, England
1975 "More British Potters, No.2", Primavera, Cambridge, England
"Kunstkammer Ludger Koster, Six German Ceramists", Monchen-Gladbach, Germany (Guest)
1976 "Europaische Keramik der Gegenwart", Krechen, Germany
"American Crafts, An Aesthetic View", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1979 "Two Artists", (Ruth Duckworth and Claire Zeisler), Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1982 "Travelling Porcelain", Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C.
1983 "Architectural Ceramics", Elements Gallery, New York, NY
"Prime Evidence", Exhibit A, Chicago
1984 "Stuff and Spirit", Twining Gallery, New York, NY
"Women in Clay", Octagon Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
"Ten Years of Collecting at the Museum of Contemporary Art", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Modern Master Ceramics", Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
"Histories", Exhibit A, Chicago
1985 "Pottery Questions II", Broward College, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1986 "Chicago Fire", La Galerie Centre de Ceramique Bonsecours, Vieux-Montreal, Canada
1987 "Ceramics in Architecture: Drawing, Sketches, and Models", Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
"Craft Today, Poetry of the Physical", American Craft Museum, New York and United States Tour
"Twentieth Century Studio Ceramics", Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury, England
"form un glasur '88", Galerie Jahrhunderthalle Hoeschst, Frankfurt, West Germany
"A Fine Place to Work: The Legacy of the Archie Bray Foundation", Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
"Architectural Art: Affiring the Design Relationship", The American Craft Museum, New York, NY
"Splendid Forms '88", Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM
"Ton un ton", Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
"Eloquent Object", Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK (USA and Japan Tour)
1990 "Craft USA",American Craft Museum (World Three Year Tour)
"Art in Churches Exhibition - Bar Convent York", Kent, England
"Tokyo Art International", Tokyo, Japan
"The Ceramic Vessel", Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
"Clay, Color, Content", 28th Ceramic Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1991 "Walls: Large Scale Ceramic Sculpture, Eight Variations", Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT
"Scale-Detail", Habitat/Shaw Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1992 "Built, Thrown and Touched: Contemporary Clay Works", United States Tour, 1992-1995
"Ruth Duckworth/John McQueen", Garth Clark Gallery, New York< NY
"5 x 7", New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, NY
"Triennale de la Porcelaine", (Invited Master), Nyon, Switzerland
1993 "Chicago Invitational", First Union League Club Exhibition, Chicago
"Abstract Sculpture", Klein Gallery, Chicago
1994 "The Ritual Vessel, Traditions Intertwined", Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
"Current Trends in Ceramics", Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Aichi, Japan
"Chicago: The Third Dimension", Seven Chicago Sculptors, The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago
"International Fine Ceramics at Alpha House Gallery", Sherhorne, Dorset, England
1995 "Contemporary Porcelain, 31 Artists from 12 Countries", Bowig Gallery, Hannover, Germany
"Pandora's Box and the Tradition of Clay", British Crafts Council Gallery, London, England
"Primavera: Pioneering Craft and Design 1945-1995", Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, England
1996 "Primavera: Pioneering Craft and Design 1945-1995", The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, England
"Art in Chicago, 1945-1995", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"The Nude in Clay", Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
"Saga Prefectural Art Museum Exhibition", International Academy of Ceramics, Saga, Japan
"Total Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art", Jangheung, Korea
1997 "Sculpture Pier Walk 1997", Navy Pier Center, Chicago
"Survey", Pewabic Society, Detroit
"Ceramics of the 20th Century", Paderborn, Germany
"Crossing The Threshold", 1997 Invitational, Greene Street, New York, NY (USA Tour)
"Art Biennale 1997 - Between Similarity and Difference", Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
1998 "Sculpture Objects Functional Art", Armory Building, New York, NY
"1998 NCECA Honors and Fellows Exhibition", Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
"The Regis Master Series Exhibition", Minneapolis, MN
1999 "Artisti dal Mondi", Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy
"A Fire for Ceramics - Contemporary Art from the Daniel Jacobs and Derek Mason Collection", Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
"10 Chicago Artists", Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, Chicago
"Third Survey of Abstract Art in Chicago", Klein Art Gallery, Chicago
Illinois
"The Art of Craft: Works from the Saxe Collection", M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
"Toronto Collects Contemporary Ceramics", The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada
"Clay into Art: Selections from the Contemporary Ceramics Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art", The Metropolitan Museum, NY
2000 "Color and Fire, Defining Moments of Contemporary Ceramics, 1950-2000", The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
"Material: Earth - Size:Small-Ceramic Sculpture", Kunstforum Kirchberg, Kirchberg, Switzerland
"Ceramic National 2,000", Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
2001 "6th Triennale de la Porcelaine", Invited Master, Nyon, Switzerland
"Shaping the Future with Earth", World Ceramic Exposition, Kyoung
Gee Do, Korea
2002 "Moderism and Beyond", The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada
"Contemporary American Ceramics 1950-1990 - A Survey of
American Objects and Vessels, The National Museum of Modern
Art, Kyoto, Japan
2003 "SOFA 2003", Navy Pier, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2004 "The Grand Dames of Ceramics", Andora Gallery, Carefree, Arizona
MAJOR COMMISSIONS(Selected List)
1959-60 "14 Stations of the Cross", St. Joseph's Church, New Malden, England
1965 Ritual Objects, Menorah, Solel Synagogue, Highland Park, IL
1967-68 "Earth, Water, and Sky", Stoneware Mural, 400 sq. feet entranceway to the Laboratory for Geophysical Science Building, University of Chicago
1967 "Untitled", Porcelain Chandelier, Private Collection, Chicago
1969 "Untitled", Stoneware mural, Private Collection, Aspar, CO
1972 "Untitled", Sculpture, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN
1974 "Untitled", Stoneware Mural, Private Collection, Evanston, IN
1976 "Clouds Over Lake Michigan", Stoneware mural, 240 sq. ft., Dresdner Bank, Board of Trade Building, Chicago
(1987 - moved to Options Exchange Building Lobby, Chicago, Illinois)
1978 "Untitled", Stoneware Mural on Board, Two Panels, Hodag Chemical, Company, Skokie, IL (1998 - transferred to Lewis & Clark College, Godfrey, IL)
1979 "Untitled", Stoneware Wall Mural, Private Collection, Glencoe, IL
"Untitled", Porcelain Wall Mural, Private Collection, Highland Park, IL
1981 "Untitled", Stoneware Wall Mural, 14 sq. ft., Rozansky & Kay Company, Bethesda, MD
"Untitled", Porcelain Wall Mural, Sonnenschein, Carlin, North and Rosenthal Offices, Chicago
1982 "Untitled", Stoneware Wall Mural, Main Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Untitled", Porcelain Wall Mural, Perkins & Will Architecture Offices, Chicago
"Untitled", Porcelain Wall Mural, (Second Commission), Perkins & Will Architecture Offices, Chicago
1982-83 "The Creation", Stoneware Wall Mural, 300 sq. ft., Congregation Beth Israel, Hammond, IN
1983 "Untitled", Stoneware Wall Mural, 67 sq. ft., Amcore Bank, Rockford, IL
1984 "Untitled", Porcelain Wall Mural, 27 sq. ft., Teradyne Central, Deerfield, Illinois
"Untitled", Stoneware Wall Mural, 110 sq. ft., Dr. R. Lee Animal Care Center, Commissioned by the Chicago Council on Fine Arts, 1/2% for the Arts Program, Chicago
1984-85 "Untitled", Porcelain Wall Mural, 70 sq. ft., State of Illinois Building, Capitol Development Board, Springfield, IL
"Untitled", Porcelain Wall Mural, Private Collection, Northfield, IL
1986 "Untitled", Porcelain Wall Mural, Unisys Offices, New York, NY
1987 "Untitled", Porcelain Entryway, St. Mary's Church, Walsingham, England
1988 "Cloud Formation", Stowell, Cook, Frolichstein, Inc., Clearwater,
Florida
1990 "Untitled", Stoneware Wall Mural, Palm Beach Airport Terminal, Palm Beach, FL
1992 "The Guardian", Bronze Sculpture, 10'2" High, State of Illinois
Building, State Commission, Rockford, IL
1994 "Untitled", Porcelain Wall Mural, Private Collection, Chicago
1995 "Untitled", Public Commission for Chicago Children's Museum
1997-98 "Spirit of Survival", Public Commission, Bronze Sculpture, 15' High,
State of Illinois Commission, Lewis and Clark College, Godfrey
1999 "Cows on Parade", City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs
"Untitled", First National Bank Collection, Columbia, MO
2000 "Untitled", (Three commissions of wall murals for private collections)
2001 "Untitled", (Four commissions of wall murals for private collections)
2002 "Untitled", (Commissions for Private Collections)
2003 "Untitled", Two 8' Figures for Private Collection, Colorado
2004 "Untitled", 15' Bronze Sculpture, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago
IN THE COLLECTION OF: (Selected List)
Wüttembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany
Windsor Castle, England
National Museum of Modern Art, Japan
Inner London Education Committee Collection, England
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mills College, CA
Smithsonian Institution American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C.
The International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY
Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, s'Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
St. Louis Art Museum
Museum für zeitbenössische keramische Kunst, Frechen, Germany
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Museum fur Modern Keramik, Germany
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Everson Museum of Art, NY
Utah Museum of Art, Utah
Schleswig- Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Germany
Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
American Craft Museum, NY
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
J.S. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles
City Museum, Bassano Del Grappa, Italy
Buckingham County Museum, Buckinghamshire, England
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Kestner Museum, Hannover,Germany
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY