Object Record
Images
Metadata
Accession # |
AC1997.9.1 |
Item Name |
Vase, Flower |
Description |
Untitled, two-tone stoneware vase, by Danish-Canadian artist, Peter Knudstrup (ca. 1929-2006), ca. 1970. Matte glaze over beige and brown speckled paint with seven horizontal rows of an impressed pattern on upper half of vase. Narrow, flared lip at top. CS J22 |
Date |
Circa 1970 |
Provenance |
Donated by the artist in memory of Ellen Langlands, ART 717 forms part of the Ellen Langlands Memorial Art Collection. Langlands served as director of WCMA from 1986-1997 and was active member of the EAC. She passed away in 1997. Peter Knudstrup was born and raised in Denmark where he lived beside a pottery works and became fascinated with the art. In the 1950s, he apprenticed at a pottery studio near Copenhagen, while studying art at night school. At the time, he made extra money as a jazz saxophonist. He emigrated to Canada as a young man, working first in Northern Ontario, laying dynamite for a logging companying. He then moved to Toronto and worked in an aluminum manufacturing plant. In Toronto, he met his wife, nurse Nancy Chattaway, and they decided to start a pottery studio of their own. Around 1967, they purchased the old Chalmer's Presbyterian Church building on Henderson Street in Elora, Ontario, and began the process of converting it into a home and studio. They officially opened the business with an open house at the studio on 21 June 1970. Peter Knudstrup and Nancy Chataway had three children. Peter Knudstrup passed away 22 February 2006. |
Person \ Organization |
Chalmers Presbyterian Church Chataway, Nancy Ellen Langlands Memorial Art Collection Knudstrup, Peter Langlands, Ellen (Mrs.) Wellington County Museum and Archives |
Place |
Canada Copenhagen Denmark Elora Henderson Street Northern Ontario Ontario Toronto |
Year Range from |
1965 |
Year Range to |
1975 |
Art number |
Art 717 |
Creator \ Maker |
Knudstrup, Peter |
Title (art only) |
Untitled |