1. Beatrice Wood was an American artist and studio potter involved in the Dada movement in the United States; she founded and edited The Blind Man and Rongwrong magazines in New York City with French artist Marcel Duchamp and writer Henri-Pierre Roche in 1917.
Beatrice Wood had earlier studied art and theater in Paris, and was working in New York as an actress.
Beatrice Wood partially inspired the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater in James Cameron's 1997 film, Titanic after the director read Wood's autobiography while developing the film.
Beatrice Wood died nine days after her 105th birthday in Ojai, California.
Beatrice Wood was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of wealthy socialites.
Beatrice Wood continued acting with a French Repertory Company in New York City, performing more than sixty roles in two years.
Beatrice Wood worked for several years performing on the stage.
The work was the image of a nude female figure rising from her bath, but because Beatrice Wood attached an actual piece of soap to what she called the "tactical position", the work drew a great deal of attention and critical reaction.
Beatrice Wood herself saw little resemblance between Jules et Jim and her relationship with Roche and Duchamp, writing in her 1985 autobiography, I Shock Myself:.
Beatrice Wood met the art patrons Walter and Louise Arensberg, who became her lifelong friends.
Beatrice Wood signed her early drawings "Bea", her name in French, but after taking up pottery, she signed most of her work as "Beato", her nickname.
Beatrice Wood explored both vessel forms and sculpture throughout her career.
Beatrice Wood wanted to find a matching teapot to go along with it, but was unsuccessful.
Ultimately, Beatrice Wood developed a signature style of glazing, an all-over, in-glaze luster that draws the metallic salts to the surface of the glaze by starving the kiln of oxygen.
Beatrice Wood's work is held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, among others.
In 1947, Beatrice Wood felt her career was established enough for her to build a home.
Beatrice Wood settled in Ojai, California, in 1948 to be near the Indian philosopher J Krishnamurti.
Beatrice Wood taught and lived on the same land as the Happy Valley School, now known as Besant Hill School.
At the age of 90, Beatrice Wood became a writer, having been encouraged by her friend Anais Nin.
When I met her [Beatrice Wood] she was charming, creative and devastatingly funny.
Beatrice Wood replied, 'I can't do that, I don't - 'I'm only 35'.