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Carol Janeway was born on 2 October, 1913 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, is an American ceramicist. Discover Carol Janeway's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 2 October 1913
Birthday 2 October
Birthplace Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
Date of death 22 November, 1989
Died Place New York, New York
Nationality United States

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1913

Carol Janeway (born Caroline Bacon Rindsfoos) (1913-1989) was a noted American ceramicist active in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s.

1925

Born Caroline Bacon Rindsfoos in her maternal grandparents' home at 101 Rugby Road in Brooklyn, she and the family moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1925 where her father, Charles Siesel Rindsfoos, joined his brother William in the Brunson Bank.

1932

She eloped in 1932 with fellow Cornell student Eliot Janeway and kept the name after the failure of the marriage in 1934.

1933

She lived in London from 1933 through 1939 with various trips to Moscow, Paris, Capri.

She studied lithography in London.

1935

In Moscow in 1935 as a lithographer, she gave birth to her daughter, Helen Roe, renamed Kiske Janeway (1935-2022).

During World War Two, French sculptor Ossip Zadkine, in self-exile in New York, lived with her and mentored her artistic career.

1940

She was active in the preservation of Greenwich Village starting in the late 1940s.

1942

The main venue for her ceramics was Georg Jensen Inc. (New York City) from 1942 -1949, while Gimbels, I. Magnin, Gumps and other stores also sold her wares.

In 1942, several ceramicists trained her in ceramics: Anne T. Wright, William Suoini, Catherine Yarrow, C. Paul Freigang,Designed Tiles studio, and others.

She was the subject of many portraits by artists including Zadkine, Maya Deren, and Tusnelda Sanders.

1944

Of the 32 artists invited to exhibit in The Imagery of Chess, a dada-surrealist art event at the Julien Levy Gallery from December 1944 to January 1945, she was one of two female artists whose chess sets were featured.

She decorated many tile fireplace surrounds installed mainly in the New York area.

Her how-to ceramics book, Ceramics and Potterymaking for Everyone,

1945

She was featured in a 1945 issue of Life Magazine for her work with ceramic tiles.

1947

In 1947 Janeway was asked to submit designs for the noted British manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood & Sons however the firm did not put the designs into production.

1948

Two such Janeway plates appeared in the 1948 Wedgwood exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.

She designed and produced a line of ceramic chess, backgammon, and checker sets.

1950

She had three successive studios in Greenwich Village until the early 1950s when she worked out of her home in Milligan Place in Greenwich Village.

was published in 1950 by Tudor Publishing Company as a part of a series.

News of her diagnosis of lead poisoning leading to her retirement appeared in a 1950 "Lyons Den" column.

Works by Janeway are held by few museums, despite claims in her obituary.

These are the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City and the Philadelphia Museum of Art which holds Janeway's papers in addition to some tile work.

Ceramic art by Janeway and additional papers were sold by her estate and are in a private collection.

From the 1950s she became increasingly active in preserving Greenwich Village working alongside Jane Jacobs, Doris Diether and Ruth Wittenberg among others.

1952

Her pamphlet, Ceramic Brushes: their selection, use, and care, was published in 1952 by Delta Brush Mfg.

Corp., New York.

1956

In 1956, amid tabloid coverage, a jury of 6 in NY Municipal Court recognized Janeway's claim on her 1 Milligan Place apartment, and scuttled the landlord's eviction, in an early example of palimony.

Her fiancé/leaseholder had abandoned the relationship and the apartment leaving her to continue paying bills.

1960

These women, in particular its long-lived Chair Doris Diether, founded in the 1960s what became Community Board II (CB2) in 1971, one of New York's earliest community boards.

When Janeway was not serving on the CB2, she regularly attended the meetings.

1962

The successful campaign to preserve the two linked mews, Patchin Place and Milligan Place, started in 1962 with appeals by local groups to the City's Board of Estimates for rezoning.

Janeway formed the Committee for the Preservation of Patchin and Milligan Place for this purpose.

A ceramics teacher at the infamous New York Women's House of Detention for two years, 1962-65, she testified in 1965 before New York County's Fourth May Grand Jury investigating the prison's notorious mistreatment of prisoners.

Janeway distinguished herself as a witness by reporting in The Villager newspaper a four-article series describing her treatment by the prosecutor in the Grand Jury.

1967

Her colleague at the prison was social worker Sara Harris who in writing her 1967 exposé on the Women's House of Detention, Hellhole, relied on Janeway's items in The Villager in writing Chapter 12.

1971

While she was initially in favor of prison reform, once the building was emptied of prisoners in 1971 she and the Patchin and Milligan Place tenants group called for its demolition in 1973.

1987

In 1987, daughter Kiske joined the Monastery of St. Clare, Evansville, Indiana, as Sister Catherine Kiske and died there in 2022.

1988

Her will of 1988 bequeathed the liquidated assets of her estate to The People With Aids Coalition.

1989

Diagnosed with mouth cancer, Carol Janeway died of pneumonia in November 1989.