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BIOGRAPHY
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1925 – Installation in lobby of Fine Arts Building in Los Angeles
Hand molded, fired clay, colored with pigmented slip
Biographic Information:

Ernest Batchelder (1876-1957)
Born: Francestown ?, New Hampshire 1876 Died: Pasadena, California 1957

1895: Graduates from Massachusetts Normal Art Institute Boston, Massachusetts

1901: Assists Professor Denman W. Ross at the Harvard Summer School of Design, Moves to Pasadena, California, where he is employed by the Throop Polytechnic Institute, (now California Institute of Technology)

1904: Assists Frederick Alan Whiting in assembling Southwestern Arts and Crafts for Louisiana Purchase International Exposition in St. Louis

1905-1906: Tours Europe and studies at School of Arts and Crafts, Birmingham, England

1905-1909: teaches design at the Minneapolis Handicraft Guild Summer School

1908: Publishes “The Principles of Design”. Takes another trip to England and the Continent.

1909: Resigns from Throop and buys property on the Arroyo Seco. Builds a house.

1910: Builds shop behind house. Begins to design and craft tile there. Publishes “Design in Theory and Practice”.

1912: Moves tile business to a larger shop. Marries Alice Coleman.

1914: Commissioned to design and decorate the interior of the Dutch Chocolate Shop in downtown Los Angeles.

1920: Moves his tile company from Pasadena to larger quarters in Los Angeles.

1932: His business fails in the Depression.

1936: Begins making slip-cast ware.

1948: Alice dies.

1949: Ernest sells business and retires.

1957: Ernest dies in Pasadena.
 
Exhibitions:

Pasadena Society of Artists
2002 April 6-June 16
75th Annual Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Pasadena Historical Museum, Pasadena CA

 
Organizations:
Pasadena Society of Artists
 
Collections & Works Held:
Fine Arts Building Lobby, Los Angeles CA
 
Known Works:
Tile, thumbnail of a clay sculpture by Ernest Batchelder  

C 1925

Square Tile
4" x 4"
Hand molded, fired clay, colored with pigmented slip

Tile, thumbnail of a clay sculpture by Ernest Batchelder  

C 1916

Twin Trees Tile
12" x 18.25" x 1"
Hand molded, fired clay, colored with pigmented slip

Tile, thumbnail of a clay sculpture by Ernest Batchelder  

1925

Installation in lobby of Fine Arts Building in Los Angeles
Hand molded, fired clay, colored with pigmented slip

 
 
Sources:

Biographic Information from ”Batchelder, Tilemaker” By Robert Winter, Balcony Press; Los Angeles, California Copyright 1999.

“Square Tile” Image from “A Cultural Legacy, The Pasadena Society of Artists Diamond Jubilee Exhibition” Catalogue, April 6 - June 16, 2002, Catalogue complied by Jae Carmichael, Copyright 2002, Square tile Courtesy of the Paul H. Giddings Estate, Photo: Walt Mancini The Pasadena Historical Museum , Pasadena, California.

“Twin Trees Tile” Image from “California Art, 450 Years of Painting and Other Media” By Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, Copyright 1998, Dustin Publications, Los Angeles, California, Tile Courtesy of the Tile Heritage Foundation, Photo: M. Lee Fatherree.

Artist’s and “Installation in lobby of Fine Arts Building in Los Angeles” photo from ”Batchelder, Tilemaker” By Robert Winter, Balcony Press; Los Angeles, California Copyright 1999.