Isaac Scott Hathaway
American sculptor, ceramics artist, and educator, 1872–1967
Person TypeIndividual
Terms
- sculptors
- male
- African American
Dutch ceramic artist, born in Poland and active in Holland and the US, 1901–1985
Isaac Scott Hathaway
BiographyHathaway was an African American sculptor born in Kentucky. He attended college and art school, studying art history and ceramics. He taught in elementary school in Kentucky and moved to Washington, D.C., where he founded the National Afro-Art Company, which sold plaster busts of significant African Americans based on models sculpted by Hathaway. He became a professor at University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, and then at Tuskegee, where he was a founding member of the ceramics department.
