Carl Cooper b. 1917

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Potter, worked with the Boyd family at Murrumbeena, Victoria.
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potter, worked with the Boyd family at Murrumbeena, Victoria, where he produced highly decorated earthwares. His delicate sgraffito designs and X-ray style imagery, seen for example in an earthenware coffee set 1948 (BFAG) and a small bowl 1949, platter 1953 and rectangular dish 1953 (all Shepparton AG), derived from Arnhem Land bark paintings by the Gadadju people (reproduced Baddeley p.7).

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Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011

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References [<ExternalResource: Baddeley, C. (1999), 'Motif & meaning : Aboriginal influences in Australian art, 1930-1970', Ballarat, Vic : Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.>, <ExternalResource: Measham, T. (1991), 'Decorative Arts and Design from the Powerhouse Museum', Sydney, NSW : Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (Powerhouse Museum).>]