Studio Pottery Dog Tile by Marl Bulwinkle

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A studio pottery tile by the American artist Mark Bulwinkle (born 1946). This round tile features the impressed image of … Read more A studio pottery tile by the American artist Mark Bulwinkle (born 1946). This round tile features the impressed image of a dog with its tongue sticking out. The tile is marked "MB" to the verso.

Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, Bulwinkle studied at the University of Pittsburgh as well as the San Francisco Art Institute. He learned welding while living in San Francisco and worked as an industrial welder at Bethlehem Ship Yards until he became a full time artist in the 1980s. Bulwinkle is considered part of the West Coast Funk movement, an art movement that was in reaction to abstract expressionism and its non-objectivity. See less