{"id":366,"date":"2018-10-30T04:09:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T04:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-vase-73.jpg"},"modified":"2018-12-09T14:32:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T22:32:20","slug":"adolf-louise-schwenk-vase-73","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/index.php\/canadian-pottery\/adolf-louise-schwenk-vase-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Pottery \u2013 Adolf &#038; Louise Schwenk vase \u2013 British Columbia &#8211; coll.#73"},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-vase-73.jpg'><img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-vase-73-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Canadian Pottery - Adolf &amp; Louise Schwenk vase, ht. 6-1\/2&quot; Penticton - British Columbia\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-vase-73-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-vase-73-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-vase-73.jpg 855w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adolf &#038; Louise Schwenk pottery vase, ht. 6-1\/2\u2033 &#8211; Schwenk Pottery, Penticton, B.C. coll.#73<\/p>\n<p>In the later 1950s, Louise Bowman Schwenk took a class from pottery instructor Reg Dixon. The next year she attended the Vancouver School of Art with her husband, Adolf Schwenk, a painter. Afterward, Louise and Adolf took their expertise back to their log cabin near Penticton, and making use of the local clay, they built up a successful pottery. Louise was the thrower and Adolf the painter. Their work was exhibited across Canada and in 1966 they were awarded a year of study in Europe by the Canada Arts Council. Louise tragically passed away while visiting the Leach pottery in England. [Information extracted from &#8220;Origins of a Ceramic Culture: The First Fifty Years of the BC Potters Guild 1955 \u2013 2005&#8221; by Debra Sloan.]<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/index.php\/canadian-pottery\/adolf-louise-schwenk-vase-73\/\">Adolf &#038; Louise Schwenk vase<\/a><\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"Canadian Pottery - Adolf & Louise Schwenk vase, ht. 6-1\/2\" Penticton - British Columbia","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":855,"height":851,"file":"2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-vase-73.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-vase-73-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-vase-73-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-vase-73-300x300.jpg","width":300,"height":300,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-vase-73-300x300.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-vase-73-768x764.jpg","width":768,"height":764,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-vase-73-768x764.jpg"},"full":{"file":"Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-vase-73.jpg","width":855,"height":851,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-vase-73.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":353,"source_url":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-vase-73.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}]}}