Bidspirit auction | RAY GRIMM (OREGON ARTIST, 1924

RAY GRIMM (OREGON ARTIST, 1924 - 2012) RAKU-FIRED GREEN STONEWARE TEA BOWL OR CHAWAN & STIRRING EMBERS BOOK - A Raku-fired green stoneware tea bowl or chawan created by Ray Grimm (Oregon artist, 1924-2012). Featured in Daniel Duford's 2016 Stirring Embers: A Workbook for a Life of Making - The Ray Grimm Legacy Project and published by The Ray Grimm Legacy Project; pg. 64 (book included). Provenance: Often called the ”founding father of ceramics in Oregon, ” Raymond Grimm (1924 - 2012) was an artist and arts educator in Portland, Oregon. The Raymond Grimm Collection Permanent Exhibition Case highlights some of the works by one of the state’s most important ceramists. Ray was a leader in the vanguard of artists who transformed Portland into a center of ceramics and glass arts. Ray was cited in the authoritative History of Ceramics in the Pacific Northwest by Lamar Harrington, who concluded, “Grimm has been the strongest most sustained influence on formally trained students of the Portland area.”