William
Wyman Papers |
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| "I have worked in ceramics with a searching attitude directed toward raising the crafts to higher levels of expression," wrote William Wyman (1922-1980). He taught ceramics at the Drake University, the University of Maryland, and the Massachusetts College of Art. In 1953, he also founded Herring Run Pottery in East Weymouth, Massachusetts, specializing in individually crafted stoneware for home and architectural use. He inspired students and apprentices to "serve the needs of the culture in a sensitive, intelligent, responsible fashion." His slab pots scraffitoed with cartoons, poems, and popular expressions expanded the expressive possibilities of clay. His papers, donated to the Archives by Marilyn R. Pappas in 1982 and 1983, include correspondence, photographs, sketchbooks and drawings, business and financial records; exhibitions catalogues and announcements, and clippings and other printed material. | ||
 Letter from Wyman to British potter Bernard Leach (1887-1979) |
 Letter from ceramist Marilyn Levine (b. 1935) to Wyman |
 Letter from Wyman to the administration of the Massachusetts College of Art, April 27, 1966. |
 Wyman throwing, ca. 1950. |
 Letter to Wyman from potter Val Cushing (b. 1931), March 3, 1964. |
 William Wyman (1922-1980) at the Massachusetts College of Art, ca. 1970. Wood, November 5, 1979. |
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