Louise Schatz (née Louise Burton McClure; 1916–1997) was a Canadian-born Israeli painter, ceramist, and textile designer.[1][2] She is one of the best known abstract watercolorist from Israel.[3][4] She was active in Berkeley, Big Sur, Haifa, and Jerusalem.[5][4]
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Born | Louise Burton McClure 1916 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Died | 1997 Jerusalem, Israel |
Other names | Luʼiz Shats |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Occupation | Painter, ceramist, textile designer |
Years active | 1930s–1990s |
Spouse | Bezalel Schatz (married 1948–1978) |
Louise McClure was born in 1916 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to a family of English descent.[1] Her father John "Jack" McClure was a vaudeville theatre director.[6] Her mother Evelyn (née Burton) was a dental assistant.[6] At the age of 3, her family moved to Minnesota to be closer to her paternal grandparents.[1] As a result of the Great Depression the McClure family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area for work.[6]
She attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a bachelor's degree in art in 1939.[7][1][8] During World War II between 1943 to 1945, she worked as a draftsman at a shipyard in San Francisco.[1] She was a member of the "Californian Group of Seven", a Big Sur artist collective from 1945 to 1948.[1][3][4]
She married Bezalel "Lilik" Schatz in 1948, the son of sculptor Boris Schatz.[9][1][10] In 1951, Bezalel and Louise emigrated to Israel, settling 5 years later in the artist village of Ein Hod.[1][10] Their home in Ein Hod was designed by architect David Resnick.[10] She did not speak Hebrew nor have strong connections to Israel, besides that of her husband's family.[3]
In 1951, Louise Schatz, Bezalel Schatz, and her sister-in-law Zahara Schatz formed a craft workshop "Yaad" in Israel, rooted in European-American modernism.[10][11]
Her husband died in Jerusalem in 1978. She died in Jerusalem in 1997.[4] Schatz's work is in museum collections including at the British Museum,[12] and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.[13]
Louise had two sisters. Her sister Evelyn "Eve" Burton McClure, was the ex-wife of film director Jack Carr; actor Lyle Talbot; novelist Henry Miller; and sculptor Harry Dick Ross.[14][6]
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