Annette Corcoran (born 1930) is an American artist who was born in

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. She earned a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952, and continued post-graduate studies at

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, Saddleback College, and the College of Marin. She 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. '' 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

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(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

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, and the

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(Racine, Wisconsin) are among the public collections holding work by Annette Corcoran.Annette Corcoran on AskArt.com
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References

* Corcoran, Annette, ''Annette Corcoran, Birds and Teapots, 1987 - 1996'', Dorothy Weiss Gallery, 1996

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Corcoran, Annette American ceramists 20th-century ceramists 21st-century ceramists 1930 births Living people People from Inglewood, California University of California, Berkeley alumni