Louise Schatz | |
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Born | Louise Burton McClure 1916
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Died | 1997
Jerusalem, Israel |
Other names | Luʼiz Shats |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Occupation(s) | Painter, ceramist, textile designer |
Years active | 1930s–1990s |
Spouse | Bezalel Schatz (married 1948–1978) |
Louise Schatz (née Louise Burton McClure; 1916–1997) was a Canadian-born Israeli painter, ceramist, and textile designer. [1] [2] She is one of the best known abstract watercolorist from Israel. [3] [4] She was active in Berkeley, Big Sur, Haifa, and Jerusalem. [5] [4]
Louise McClure was born in 1916 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to a family of English descent. [1] Her father John "Jack" McClure was a vaudeville theatre director. [6] Her mother Evelyn (née Burton) was a dental assistant. [6] At the age of 3, her family moved to Minnesota to be closer to her paternal grandparents. [1] As a result of the Great Depression the McClure family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area for work. [6]
She attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a bachelor's degree in art in 1939. [7] [1] [8] During World War II between 1943 and 1945, she worked as a draftsman at a shipyard in San Francisco. [1] She was a member of the "Californian Group of Seven", a Big Sur artist collective from 1945 to 1948. [1] [3] [4]
She married Bezalel "Lilik" Schatz in 1948, the son of sculptor Boris Schatz. [9] [1] [10] In 1951, Bezalel and Louise emigrated to Israel, settling 5 years later in the artist village of Ein Hod. [1] [10] Their home in Ein Hod was designed by architect David Resnick. [10] She did not speak Hebrew nor have strong connections to Israel, besides that of her husband's family. [3]
In 1951, Louise Schatz, Bezalel Schatz, and her sister-in-law Zahara Schatz formed a craft workshop "Yaad" in Israel, rooted in European-American modernism. [10] [11]
Her husband died in Jerusalem in 1978. She died in Jerusalem in 1997. [4] Schatz's work is in museum collections including at the British Museum, [12] and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. [13]
Louise had two sisters. Her sister Evelyn "Eve" Burton McClure, was the ex-wife of film director Jack Carr; actor Lyle Talbot; novelist Henry Miller; and sculptor Harry Dick Ross. [14] [6]
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