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Demand quickly surpassed supply, and with manufacturing equipment designed by her husband Brian Heath, the couple made simple and elegant housewares and tiles at their eponymous factory in Sausalito, CA, for over fifty years. #EdithHeath #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on August 24, 2022.

Edith Heath converted the laundry room of her Filbert Street residence into a pottery studio, and by 1944 she exhibited at the Legion of Honor Museum and sold wares to the high-end San Francisco retailer Gump’s. #EdithHeath #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on August 24, 2022.

Edith Heath created ceramics that combined modern design with the hand-made aesthetics of studio pottery. In the early 1940s, she moved west and took classes in ceramics at the California School of Fine Arts (now the @SFAIofficial) and @UCBerkeley. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on August 24, 2022.

See “California Modernist Women: Groundbreaking Creativity” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/RGair4jz8h #CaliforniaModernistWomen #EdithHeath #California #womenartists #modernism This tweet was posted on August 02, 2022.

In 1948, Heath Ceramics introduced their first original dinnerware line, Coupe, which is still in production. Coupe pioneered manufacturing at Heath Ceramics, with plates and shallow bowls formed on jiggering wheels. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #EdithHeath This tweet was posted on August 02, 2022.

Glazes that contained metallic oxides were perfected to chemically react at low temperatures. Some of #EdithHeath’s distinctive finishes created speckled effects when fired in the kiln, such as the graduated, two-toned “Sea and Sand.” #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on August 02, 2022.

Unimpressed with lightly colored, commercially available clays, Edith Heath of @heathceramics in Sausalito formulated clay bodies from rich deposits left by a prehistoric inland sea near Lincoln, CA, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains foothills. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #EdithHeath This tweet was posted on August 02, 2022.

Mary sculpted, wrote for art magazines, and in the mid-1960s, she worked for the Archives of American Art on an oral history project to document San Francisco artists who participated in the Works Progress Administration’s 1935–43 Federal Art Project. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on July 10, 2022.

In 1952, following a year living in Mexico, Mary Fuller McChesney and her husband, Abstract Expressionist painter, Robert McChesney, hand-built a small home and two studios on two acres atop Sonoma Mountain near Petaluma, California. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on July 09, 2022.

See “California Modernist Women: Groundbreaking Creativity” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/RGair4jz8h #CaliforniaModernistWomen #California #womenartists #modernism This tweet was posted on June 28, 2022.

She was greatly inspired by Pre-Columbian sculpture when they moved to Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1951, to join a group of Bay Area and New York artists. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on June 28, 2022.

During the WWII, she worked as a welder in the shipyards in Richmond, CA. By 1949, Mary lived in Point Richmond with her husband, Abstract Expressionist painter Robert McChesney, and made ceramic sculptures in a kiln that she constructed at their home. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on June 28, 2022.