{"id":377,"date":"2018-10-30T03:13:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T03:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-platter-81.jpg"},"modified":"2018-12-09T14:32:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T22:32:18","slug":"adolf-louise-schwenk-platter-81","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/index.php\/canadian-pottery\/adolf-louise-schwenk-platter-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Pottery \u2013 Adolf &#038; Louise Schwenk platter \u2013 dia. 13\u2033  &#8211; British Columbia &#8211; coll.#81"},"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-platter-81.jpg'><img width=\"300\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-platter-81-300x286.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Canadian Pottery - Adolf &amp; Louise Schwenk charger, dia. 13\u2033 Penticton - British Columbia\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-platter-81-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-platter-81-768x731.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-platter-81.jpg 897w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canadian Pottery \u2013 Adolf &#038; Louise Schwenk plate \u2013 dia. 13\u2033 &#8211; Penticton &#8211; British Columbia. coll.#81<\/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-platter-81\/\">Adolf &#038; Louise Schwenk platter<\/a><\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"Canadian Pottery - Adolf & Louise Schwenk charger, dia. 13\u2033 Penticton - British Columbia","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":897,"height":854,"file":"2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-platter-81.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-platter-81-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-platter-81-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-platter-81-300x286.jpg","width":300,"height":286,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-platter-81-300x286.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-platter-81-768x731.jpg","width":768,"height":731,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-platter-81-768x731.jpg"},"full":{"file":"Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-platter-81.jpg","width":897,"height":854,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Adolf-Louise-Schwenk-platter-81.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-platter-81.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artshuttle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377"}],"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=377"}]}}