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BROTHER THOMAS ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
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1929 Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1950 Graduated from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
1951-8 Worked in business. Advisor to Nova Scotia Handcraft Centre.
1953 Began pottery
1958-9 Traveled and studied in Europe.
1959 Entered the Benedictine Monastery, Weston Priory, VT.
1968 Graduated from University of Ottawa Masters degree in Philosophy. University Gold Medal.
1976 Visiting lecturer, Alfred University School of Ceramics, NY.
1978 Traveled in Japan. Met with five "National Treasure" potters.
Traveled to Taipei
1983 Awarded National Endowment for the Arts grant.
1985 Artist-in-Residence, Mount Saint Benedict, Erie, PA.
2007 Died, Mount Saint Benedict, Erie, PA.
MUSEUM AND GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
1972 G. W. V. Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA.
1974 St. Mary's University Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1980 G. W. V. Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA.
1982 Pucker Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA.
1983 Pucker Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA.
1984 Pucker Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA.
1986 Carlyn Gallery, New York City, NY.
Galerie Kieff, Montreal, Canada.
1987 Pucker Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA.
New Acquisitions Gallery, Syracuse, NY.
1988 Pucker Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA.
Mount Saint Benedict, Erie, PA.
Olin Museum, Roanoke College, Salem, VA.
Thronja Gallery, Springfield, MA.
1989 Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA.
Elizabeth Anne Seton Memorial Gallery, Saint Peters School, New Brunswick, NJ.
Pucker Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA.
Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT.
1990 Dee Erlien Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.
Pucker Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA.
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA.
1991 Pucker Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA.
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
"Collecting American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, 1971-1991."
1992 Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA. "Recent Gifts".
Nada/Mason Gallery, Northfield Mt. Hermon School, MA.
1993 Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Bayside, NY.
Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA. "Vessels and Visions".
Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH.
Benedicta Art Center, College of St. Benedicta, MN.
Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, DC.
1994 Catharine G. Murphy Galleries, College of St. Catherine, MN.
Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA. "Of Measures Beyond the Perfect"
1995 Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA. "Gifts From the Fire II"
1997 St. Vincent's College, Latrobe, PA. "Gifts from the Fire"
1997 Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA. "Continuity and Renewal"
1997 Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN.
"Gifts from the Fire: The Porcelains of Brother Thomas Bezanson"
1998 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1999 Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA "A Time for Celebration"
2000 Green Gallery, Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan.
2001 Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA.
2001 Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
2003 Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA
2003 Southern Vermont Arts Center. Manchester, VT
2003 Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA
COLLECTIONS
Aidekman Art Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bellerive Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Erie, PA
The Bennington Museum of Art, Bennington, VT
Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec, Canada
Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Commonwealth School, Boston, MA
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Everson Museum, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Framingham State College, Framingham, MA
Gardiner Museum of Ceramics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA
Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan
International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy
Kennedy Museum of American Art, Ohio University, Miami, OH
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
The Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred, Alfred, NY
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
Musee Bernard Palissy, France
Neuestadt Museum, Landsberg Am Lech, Germany
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Roberson Center for the Arts & Sciences, Binghamton, NY
Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
St. Edmunds College, Cambridge, England
St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa, Israel
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Vatican Collection, Rome, Italy
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Windsor Castle, Windsor, England
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Yale University, New Haven, CT
LECTURES, ARTICLES, MONOGRAPHS, AND FILM
1960-7 Article, "Potters Notebook", published by Nova Scotia Department of Education.
1984 Lecture, "Contemplative Values in My Work", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
1986 Lecture, "Color, Light & Harmony" Studio Potter's Magazine.
1987 Lecture, "The Artist's Word", Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY.
Article, "The Artist's Word," Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY.
1988 Lecture, "The Pathways to Simplicity", Mount Saint Benedict
Lecture, "Art and Religious Experience", Roanoke College
Monograph, The Path to the Beautiful.
1989 Lecture, "Alchemy and the Potter's Art", Bennington Museum
1990 Lecture: "Ars, Artis", Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA.
1991 Film: Gifts From the Fire, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
1993 Lecture: "Freedom: First Gift/Last Gift". Mt. St. Benedict
Monograph, Gifts From the Fire.
Lecture:"BIG TIGER/little tiger" Walsh College, Canton, OH
and Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
1994 Lecture, "A Reflection on 'Recognition' in Art"
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1995 "Viewpoints" Forum, Asia Society, New York, NY
1995 Article, "Outer Space/Inner Space". Studio Potter
1997 Article, "The Millennial Eggs, Beauty and Hope"
1999 Monograph, Creation out of Clay
2001 Celebrate the Days: The Brother Thomas Book of Days
2003 Offerings of the Spirits: Tributes to the Artist
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