Corcoran Annette

American artist who worked as a graphic artist for 15 years before turning to ceramics. She then spent 25 years making ceramic teapots. Although originally functional, they evolved into non-functional works of art. The monograph, Annette Corcoran, Birds and Teapots, 1987 - 1996 was published by Dorothy Weiss Gallery in 1996. She earned a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952, and continued post-graduate studies at California State University, Long Beach, California Polytechnic State University, Saddleback College, and the College of Marin. Anhinga, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is typical of her teapots, which usually incorporate birds into the design. It is made of hand-built porcelain, employing both underglazes and overglazes. The Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, New York), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the National Museum of Ceramic Art (Baltimore, Maryland), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Racine Art Museum (Racine, Wisconsin) are among the public collections holding work by Annette Corcoran. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less