Reminiscences of Rudolph Staffel : oral history, 1984.

Biographical Note

Ceramic artist.

Scope and Contents

Childhood; education at Chicago Art Institute, late 1920s; exposure to ceramics in New Mexico, teaching at Arts and Crafts Club, New Orleans, and Tyler School of Art, Temple University; U.S. Air Force, World War II; professional interests, use of clay and porcelain, reflections on development of American Ceramic Society, National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts.

Subjects

• American Ceramic Society.
• Art Institute of Chicago.
• Clay.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Polsky, Richard M., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Porcelain.
• Potters--Interviews.
• Pottery.
• Pottery craft.
• Staffel, Rudolf, 1911-2002--Interviews.
• United States. Army Air Forces.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1986.