fance franck - Pucker Gallery

FANCE FRANCK
1927
Born in Alabama
EDUCATION
Rice University, Houston, Texas - literature, philosophy, history of art.
Université de Paris, the Sorbonne - French literature, philosophy, aesthetics.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts - French and English poetry.
Boston Museum School, Boston - sculpture and history of art.
Institute of Technology of Nagoya, Seto Division - ancient Japanese glazes.
ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF CERAMICS
1959
Founded the Rue Bonaparte Studio with the great French ceramist, Francine del Pierre.
1969
Commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture to create works for the Manufacture Nationale de
Porcelaine de Sèvres.
1979-1980
Fellow of the Japan Foundation in. Personal exhibitions at the Municipal Museums of Kyoto and
Fukaoka and the Takashimaya Art Gallery in Tokyo.
1981
Invited to lecture during a personal exhibition in the Seattle Museum.
l983-1986
Worked in Japan to create porcelain for Dansk Designs.
1986-1990
Research and creation of Fresh red glazed porcelain, under the auspices of The Asian Cultural
Council, New York.
1987-1989
Study trips to Jingdezhen, Shanghai and Nanjing Museums in mainland China, and to Taipei Palace
Museum. Invitation by Professor Zhang Fukang, of the Academia Sinica and the Shanghai National Institute for
Ceramics Research, to study the archaeology and technology of Ming copper red porcelain and to lecture and present
slides at the Museum of Jingdezhen on her recent works.
1988
Research on Fresh red copper glaze technology in collaboration with Professor Zhang Fukang in
Paris, out under the auspices of the Asian Cultural Council and the Manufacture de Sèvres. Lecture on China trips
and copper red research at Guimet Museum.
1989
Macrophotographic study of the red porcelain of the Yamato BunkaKan, Nara, and the Municipal
Museum of Osaka. Consultation with Dr. Yamasaki Kazuo, of the University of Nagoya, President of the Oriental
Ceramic Society of Japan, and with Dr. Moriyoshi Yusuke, Head of the High Temperature Department of the
National Institute for Inorganic Materials Research, Tsukuba, Japan.
1990
Exhibition at The Ashmolean Museum of Fresh red porcelain by Fance Franck; lectures at an
international symposium on copper red porcelain in Oxford at the Ashmolean, in London at the British Museum, the
Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, and in Paris at Guimet Museum and
the Manufacture de Sèvres. Symposium participants included the curators of these museums, the vice-director of the
Shanghai Museum, and eminent scientists from Shanghai, Tsukuba, Japan, Oxford University, the British Museum
and Guimet Museum and Manufacture de Sèvres in France. Lecture given in Oxford for the British Ceramics Society.
1991
Invited at the request of the French Cultural Ministry’s National Center for the Plastic Arts, Fance
Franck wrote a report on her copper red research.
1992
Percival David Foundation monograph series, the University of London published an essay on her
copper red work.
1993
Inauguration of the exhibition L'Oeuvre au Rouge - Poterie de Grand Feu de Fance Franck, Bau
Collection, Geneva. Lecture at the Baur Collection. Lecture at the symposium «Court Taste in Chinese Porcelain»,
organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., in connection with the
exhibition Joined colors: Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain.
1994
Named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres - ceremony at the Manufacture de Sèvres. Professor
Bernard Frank, Head of Japanese Studies at the Collège de France, awarded the insignia.
1995
Requested by Yuba Tadanori, curator of the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, to write for the
catalogue Japon, Saveurs et Sérénité, an exhibition of ceramics for the tea ceremony presented by Cernuschi Museum in
Paris.
1996
Named one of four "alumni of the year" of Rice University, Houston, Texas, in recognition of
achievement in the field of art. Preparation a trilingual (Russian-English-French) catalogue for the exhibition Ceramics
of Fance Franck at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. The catalogue was prepared in collaboration with
Tatiana Arapova, Hermitage Museum, Maud Girard-Geslan, Guimet Museum, and Louise Allison Cort, FreerSackler Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1997
Collaboration with Professor Mikail Piotrosky, director, and Tatiana Arapova, curator, of the
Hermitage Museum in the production of the video film "Ceramics by Fance Franck at the Hermitage".Conducted
study group to Sèvres Museum for the members of Suzukake no kai during the exhibition Cordes de Feu – 1000 années de
poterie de Bizen and to Japanese Cultural Center in Paris for the Friends of Guimet Museum during the exhibition
Poterie de Raku.
1998
Group of stoneware and porcelain pieces was purchased by the Fine Arts Museum of Houston,
Texas. A large vase was acquired by the Fine Arts Museum of Boston, Massachusetts.
1999
Named Vice-President of the French Society for the Study of Oriental Ceramics
2000
The Smithsonian Renwick Gallery, the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Acquisition of a porcelain vase by the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Preparation for a solo exhibition at Hillside West, Daikan Yama, Tokyo, November
2000
Lecture given to the French Oriental Ceramics Society, Cernuschi Museum
2001
2001
Acquisition of a porcelain vase by the Seattle Art Museum
Lecture given to the Houston Museum of fine Arts ‘Ceramic Circle of Bayou Bend.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1971
Museo de Belles Artes, Caracas.
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1980
1981
1986
1990
1991
1993
1994
1995
1996
Château de Ville d'Avray, Peintures de Sergio de Castro, Poteries et Porcelaines de Sèvres de Fance Franck.
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.
Fance Franck, Pottery - Sergio de Castro, Small Paintings, French Cultural Center, Luxemburg.
Fance Franck Ceramics, Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf.
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Bordeaux.
Musée Dobrée, Nantes.
Musée Municipal, Cholet.
Fukuoka Municipal Museum, Japan.
Kyoto Municipal Museum.
Takashimaya Art Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo.
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausaw,Wisconsin.
Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama.
New Harmony Contemporary Art Athenaeum, New Harmony, Indiana.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington.
Porcelain by Fance Franck, Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf.
Sacrificial Red Glazed Porcelain by Fance Franck, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Exhibition Fina Gomez Collection, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
L’Oeuvre au Rouge - Poterie de Grand Feu de Fance Franck, Baur Collection, Geneva.
Presentation two works, Sister Moon and Brother Sun, for the chapel of Francis of Assisi in New
Harmony, Indiana.
Les vases communicants, an exhibition of porcelain and stoneware works, in collaboration with a Paris
representative of the Sogetsu Ikebana School of Japan.
Presentation of recent works in collaboration with a specialist of the Sogetsu Ikebana School.
Presentation of recent works together with photographs by Laurence Toussaint as part of the «Artists’
Studios in the Sixth Arrondissement» program.
Ceramics of Fance Franck, 100 works exhibited in the Russian State Museum of the Hermitage, Saint
Petersburg.
1998
Exhibition at the Pucker Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
2000 Exhibition at the Pucker Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
2000 Exhibition at Hillside West, Tokyo.
2001 Exhibition at the Walter Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland.
2003 Art Alive, Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1980
1983
1985
1986
1988
1989
1991
1992
2001
2003
Sèvres Porcelain, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Métiers d'Art Show, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
Chunichi Shimbun International Exhibition of Ceramic Arts, Nagoya.
Designers-Creators, Seibu Gallery, Tokyo.
Contemporary Ceramics, Aulnay-sous-Bois.
East-West Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition, Art Center of the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation,
Seoul, Korea.
L'Europe des Céramistes, Abbaye Saint Germain, Auxerre.
Société d’Encouragement aux Métiers d’Art : Exhibition, Avignon.
Exhibition Fina Gomez Collection, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
USA Clay» at the Renwick Gallery, American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution,Washington, DC.
Rouge de Cuivre, Peau de Pêche, Sang de Bœuf », Musée Palissy, Saint-Avit, France
Art Alive » Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan.
Prefectural Museum, Arita, Japan.
Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., documentary collection.
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Bordeaux.
Musée National de Céramique, Sèvres.
Kunst und Gerwerbe Museum, Hamburg, Germany.
Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany.
New Harmony Athenaeum, Indiana, USA.
Musée Ariana, Geneva.
Nanjing Museum of Art, Nanjing, China.
Institute of Archeological Research, Jingdezhen, China.
Idemitsu Art Museum, Tokyo.
The Russian State Museum of the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg.
Fine Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Fine Arts Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
THE RENWICK GALLERY OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, WASHINGTON, D.C.
Musée Palissy, Saint-Avit, France
MUSEUM OF MODERN CERAMIC ART, GIFU, JAPAN.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Sackler Museum at Harvard Universtiy, Cambridge, MA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
ESSAYS BY FANCE FRANCK
1968
1976
1986
1991
1993
1995
L'Art de Francine del Pierre, Cahiers de la Céramique, No. 42-43, Musée National de Céramique de Sèvres.
La Poterie de Francine del Pierre, catalogue for the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen.
Vers la découverte du langage de la poterie, Janette Ostier Gallery, Paris, November, l986.
Study of Fresh red Porcelain Glaze: a Potter's View, Monograph Series no. 3, The Percival David Foundation of
Chinese Art, University of London.
L’Œuvre au Rouge, The Baur Collection, no. 55, Geneva
Vide et Plénitude des Poteries du Thé, catalogue for Japon, Saveurs et Sérénité, la cérémonie du thé, Cernuschi
Museum, Paris, works from the Idemitsu Museum of Tokyo.
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Rey, Jean-Dominique, preface, Fance Franck - Sergio de Castro, Château de Ville d'Avray, l973.
Speilmann, Heinz, preface, Fance Franck Keramik, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1974.
Klinge, Ekkart, preface, Fance Franck, Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, 1976.
D'Albis, Jean, Ernest Chaplet, l835-l909, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, l976
Du Pasquier, J., Fance Franck, poteries et porcelaines, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Bordeaux, 1976.
Costa, Dominique: preface, Fance Franck, poteries et porcelaines l968 à l976, Musée Dobrée, Nantes.
Roberts, Laurance, introduction to exhibitions of ceramics by Fance Franck, organized by the International
Exhibitions Foundation, presented in Japan in 1980 and the U.S.A. in 1981.
Yamada, Chisaburo: introduction to exhibition of ceramics by Fance Franck in Japan, 1980.
Klinge, Ekkart, introduction, Porcelains of Fance Franck, Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, l986.
Dunand, Frank, catalogue, L’oeuvre au Rouge, Baur Collection, Geneva, 1993.
Arapova, Tatiana (Hermitage Museum); Cort, Louise Allison (Freer-Sackler Gallery, Washington); Girard-Geslan,
Maud (Guimet Museum); catalogue for Ceramics of Fance Franck, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 1996.
Williams, Rosemary, preface, Pottery of Nature – ceramic works by Fance Franck, Boston, 1998.
GMW, Pure Geometry, Natural Grace - exhibition catalogue Pucker gallery, Boston 2000.
Voix d’Argile, texts by Ôoka Makoto, Nishida Hiroko, Yuba Tadanori and Fance Franck 2001
PRINCIPAL REVIEWS
Grand, P. -M., "40 ans de poterie française", Le Monde, August 9, l972, Paris.
Gibson, Michael, "Franck, de Castro", International Herald Tribune, May l5, l973, Paris.
Chastel, André, "Pots de couleurs et pierres noires", Le Monde, May 20-21, l973, Paris.
Du Pasquier, Jacqueline, "Die Keramikerin Fance Franck", Keramos, N° 74, l976, Bonn.
Grand, P. -M., "Chaplet et la céramique art nouveau", Le Monde, July l5, l976.
Unakami, M., "Fance Franck: ceramist of meditation", Ginka, No. 43, l980, Tokyo.
Mathieu, J., "Sèvres et la création contemporaine", L’Œil, Dec. l980, Paris.
Nishida, Hiroko, "Ceramics by Fance Franck", Orientations, vol. 12, no.1, 1981, Hong Kong.
Brunhammer, & Perrin, M.-L., "La céramique contemporaine", l98l.
de Gaigneron, Axelle, "Fance Franck Céramiste", Connaissance des Arts, no 412, 1986
Klinge, Ekkart, "Porzellane von Fance Franck - Tradition in der Moderne", Keramos, Oct. l986.
Wood, Nigel, "Chinese Copper Red Glazes", Ceramic Review, No. 126, 1990.
Frolet, Elisabeth, "Fance Franck ou la quête du rouge frais" NEXT, anno VII No. 21, Estate 1991.
Tregear, Mary : Fance Franck's Fresh red work; University of London, 1992, R. M. Scott, editor.
Zhang Fukang and Zhang Pusen, technical et historical study. U. of London, 1992, R. M. Scott, editor.
Stierlin, H., "Fance Franck, alchimie des formes et des couleurs", Connaissance des Arts,.no495, 1993.
Desroches, Jean-Paul, "à l'Est du Soleil et à l'Ouest de la Lune", Connaissance des Arts, no. 533, 1996.
Jodidio, Philip, «La Fond et la Forme» Connaissance des Arts,.no 577, 2000.