Reminiscences of William Daley [electronic resource] : oral history, 1985.

Biographical Note

Ceramic artist.

Scope and Contents

Family background and childhood, New York State; Army Air Corps cadet program, 1943; shot down, life as a prisoner of war; Massachusetts College of Art; growing interest in pottery; Columbia University, MA 1951; teaching experiences; finding his own style; pots as expressive entities; teaching art; changes in arts and crafts since 1940s; recollections of important potters; role of the galleries.

Subjects

• Art museums.
• Columbia University.
• Daley, William, 1925---Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Massachusetts College of Art.
• Oral histories.
• Polsky, Richard M., interviewer.
• Potters--Interviews.
• Pottery--Themes, motives.
• Pottery.
• World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1985.