Reminiscences of Byron Temple : oral history, 1987.

Biographical Note

Pottery artist.

Scope and Contents

Family background; education at Ball State Teachers College, Brooklyn Museum School, Haystack School; early interest in pottery; time spent in Army; work as apprentice of Bernard Leach and discussion of value of that experience; comments on other early work experince; experience teaching at Pratt Institute and as a visiting artist at other institutions; comments on selling handmade pottery and the value of handmade pottery; views on the crafts world and on succeeding as a crafsman outside of the academic world; comments on the growth of his work.

Subjects

• Arts and crafts movement.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Polsky, Richard M., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Potters--Interviews.
• Pottery, American.
• Pottery craft.
• Temple, Byron, 1933---Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1988.