Carl Cooper b. 1917

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Potter, worked with the Boyd family at Murrumbeena, Victoria.
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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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Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011

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Related stub people
  • Boyd, Arthur (associate of)
Related works
  • [rectangular dish] (creator of)
  • [platter] (creator of)
  • [small bowl] (creator of)
  • [earthenware coffee set] (creator of)
Related collections
  • Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Vic. (collected in)
  • City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Vic. (collected in)