Allen K. Littlefield Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1940 -

Allen K. Littlefield was born on October 11, 1940 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania where, after living elsewhere, he later returned to graduate in 1967 from Wilkes College with a BA in Art Education. He taught art at the elementary & high school levels for four years in Kingston, New York, then moved to New Paltz where he pursued graduate studies under ceramics instructors Kenneth Green & Robert Sederstrom at the State University of New York. He was employed as a graduate ceramics teaching assistant until 1973, when he received a Master of Fine Arts degree. Allen hand-builds each piece individually out of white stoneware clay which is then bisque-fired in an electric kiln. He employs the age-old technique of pitfiring to finish each piece prior to adding colors or attaching them to backgrounds, and views each piece as "future artifacts".