American art potter, born in Felicity, Ohio, trained as a painter at the Academy of Art in Cincinnati, where he was employed by the Rookwood Pottery. In 1893 he was given a scholarship to study painting in Paris, where he spent three years. Back in Cincinnati he resumed work as a painter of underglaze decorations at the Rookwood pottery but also began to experiment with matt glazes. Suffering from tuberculosis he left in 1899 and settled in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Here, during the few years left to him, he made a remarkable number of vases, distinctly Art Nouveau in form and decoration, covered with matt glazes of subtle texture and delicately subdued color. Many models were cast and repeated. After his death the pottery was carried on by his widow, who moved into a larger factory in 1907 but sold it in 1912.
