Carl Cooper b. 1917

  • Artist
Potter, worked with the Boyd family at Murrumbeena, Victoria.

potter, worked with the Boyd family at Murrumbeena, Victoria, where he produced highly decorated earthwares. His delicate sgraffito designs and X-ray style imagery, seen for example in an earthenware coffee set 1948 (BFAG) and a small bowl 1949, platter 1953 and rectangular dish 1953 (all Shepparton AG), derived from Arnhem Land bark paintings by the Gadadju people (reproduced Baddeley p.7).

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011