Chicago is a wonderful area because it's blessed with a tremendous number of museums of various sorts, not only the Art Institute… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
We stayed on at the Institute [Chicago called the School of Design] because that was - I don't know, you start at… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I thought, oh, I'm going to be a painter. And eventually my family had moved near Chicago, and when I graduated from… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I took a number of graphic courses, lithography and etching and wood engraving [at Art Institute]. And particularly as I got more… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
What I didn't know at the time [of my scholarship] was that the ceramic class was not really a very good class.… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
When I was in school in the Art Institute, we had several problems during the course of the time we were taking… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The two teachers that I had in the Art Institute who affected me the most were Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann;… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
That [silk-screen process experience] carried over when I returned from the Army and took more graphic classes at the Institute. And Alix… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I started to do silk-screen in the early days of my painting training, due to a woman who taught art history at… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
[Kathleen Blackshear] just said, "Have you thought of looking at this?" and so on and so on and so on. And it was a… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after [Hans] Coper… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I found out later on that was not true, that life drawing tells you a great deal about rhythm, about the structure of a… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Remember, this is back in the '40s, and the idea of a museum being a place where interested people could come in direct contact… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
At the end of that two weeks Bernard [Leach] asked us if we would like to sit with him tending the kiln, the big… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I got drafted into the army and by pure chance was pushed into a silk-screen shop at this camp where I was, because they… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece.… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Chicago is a wonderful area because it's blessed with a tremendous number of museums of various sorts, not only the Art Institute of Chicago… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
It was a wonderful opportunity. And so for two and a half years we lived with [Bernard] Leach. — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
We thought [with Alix MacKenzie], if those are the kinds of pots from every culture that interest us, why would we think that it… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took painting classes… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
It was there that we really first came in contact with the work of Shoji Hamada, who was Bernard's best friend from Japan, who… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image