Brother Thomas Bezanson (Canadian/American, 1929-2007), Eleven Porcelain Chalices

Glazed porcelain in various colors, all inscribed or marked with Benzanson's artist ciphers inscribed to underside.

Tallest 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. diameter; shortest 5 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. diameter

Private Collection, Raleigh, North Carolina

(10) with Skinner Auction labels to interior.

Brother Thomas Bezanson was born in Halifax in 1929, and graduated in 1950 from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He began working as a potter in 1953 and six years later entered the Benedictine Monastery in Weston, Vermont. He lived and worked in the monastery for twenty-five years but, feeling that his artistic freedom was limited, he left to become artist-in-residence in the community of Benedictine Sisters in Erie, Pennsylvania. Brother Thomas's simple forms are complemented by a vivid array of glazes, which he creates himself from natural materials. (Bio Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum)

One chalice with fleabite to outer rim; one with nicks to foot rim; another with several nicks to base.

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