Two autograph postcards from Henry Hammond to Henry Roland of Roland Browse & Delbanco. From his St. Maixent, Farnham address, 1980 and 1982.

HAMMOND, HENRY.

Published by Self-published., Farnham, 1980

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Two autograph postcards from Henry Hammond to Henry Roland of Roland Browse & Delbanco. From his St. Maixent, Farnham address, 1980 and 1982. Thanking him for letting him see his collection and ofr lending a guide to Vienna. Henry Hammond MBE (1914-1989) combined the roles of studio potter and ceramic educator. Hammond trained at the Croydon School of Art, followed by a scholarship to the Royal College of Art where he joined the pottery classes of William Staite Murray. He made important contributions to the development of ceramics in the Anglo-Oriental tradition, (although he also made slipware in the second half of the 1940 s) maintaining a studio in Bentley, Hampshire which he shared (from 1948) with Paul Barron.Hammond began his teaching career as a pottery instructor at the West Surrey College of Art & Design (then Farnham School of Art) taking up the post after the second world war. In lecture notes in the 1950 s he observed: Synthesis must be achieved inside individuals. . . as a direct result of their own inner experience. Crafts among other things provides that experience. It is the activity, the contact with materials, that matters . John Houston said that his pots were quickened by [his] roving, hopeful and impatient spririt .He was Head of Ceramics by the time of his retirement in 1980 and was a Founder Trustee of the Crafts Study Centre.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Two autograph postcards from Henry Hammond to Henry Roland of Roland Browse & Delbanco. From his St. Maixent, Farnham address, 1980 and 1982.
• Publisher: Self-published., Farnham
• Publication Date: 1980
• Binding: Single sheet.
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Ceramics.