Mary Chase Perry Stratton

Mary Chase Perry Stratton was an American ceramic artist. She was a cofounder, along with Horace James Caulkins, of Pewabic Pottery, a form of ceramic art used to make architectural tiles.

Stratton was born in Hancock, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula and later moved with her family to Ann Arbor, following the death of her father, and from there to the Detroit area, when she was in her early teens. There she attended her first art classes at the Art School of the Detroit Museum of Art. She followed that up with two years of studies at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, from 1887 to 1889, where she studied with the regionally important sculptor and educator Louis Rebisso.

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