Rudy Autio

(American (born 1926, died 2007))

Rudy Autio (1926-2007) was one of the most influential and innovative ceramic sculptors of his generation. He is best known for large and irregularly shaped ceramic vessels painted with themes from ancient Greek mythology as well as lots of horses. Autio was born in Butte, Montana in 1926, to immigrant parents from Finland. In 1944, he enlisted