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From that biography:
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Beatrice Wood passed away in 1998, at the age of 105 years of age, with the last 25 years of her life her most productive, creating work to satisfy a growing market for her ceramics, writing books and visiting with the hundreds of people who showed up on her doorstep. When asked the secret of her longevity, she would simply offer “art books, chocolates and young men”.
Yet, decades spent living what might be called a bohemian artist’s lifestyle had not distanced Wood from her belief in “true love”. She was married twice, but never made love to either of her husbands. She fell deeply in love seven times, but did not marry any of these men. Throughout her life, Beatrice Wood continued to think of herself as a romantic. She later said that the mountain that she lived alongside after her move to Happy Valley was the only partner she could count on “to be there when I go to bed at night and still be there when I wake up the next morning.”
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Her NY Times Obituary:
Beatrice Wood, a ceramic artist known as much for her irreverent quips,beauty, bohemian lifestyle and famous lovers as for her luminous luster-glaze chalices, and who inspired at least two movie characters, died on Thursday at her home in Ojai, Calif. She celebrated her 105th birthday on March 3.
Ms. Wood, an independent woman inclined to say whatever was on her mind, famously attributed her longevity to ``chocolate and young men'' and just as memorably titled her 1985 autobiography I Shock Myself.
In fact she was a lifelong Vegetarian who neither smoked nor drank and who remained clear-minded -- enough to begin using the computer at age 90 and beyond.
In 1993, she was the subject of a documentary, Beatrice Wood, the Mama of Dada, directed by Diandra Douglas.
More recently, she inspired the 101-year-old character of Rose in hemovie Titanic, directed by James Cameron
, a neighbor in Ojai.
Until two years ago, she worked at the potter's wheel every day, following a strict daily regimen in a studio that was listed under ``Places of Interest'' in Ojai.
A member of the Theosophy movement since 1923, she had moved to Ojai in 1948 to be near its leader, the Indian sage Krishnamurti.
For the last four decades of her life, she dressed exclusively in bright Indian saris and wore large amounts of silver-and-turquoise jewelry, even when throwing pots, with her thick, hip-length gray hair twisted into braids or a bun.
She was born in San Francisco and reared in New York, and demonstrated an early affinity for art and nonconformity, much to the dismay of her wealthy parents. She once said that she was 23 before she got free of her mother and her lady's maid, but she was allowed to go, chaperoned, to Paris when she was 18, where she studied painting at the Academie Julien and acting at the Comedie Francaise.
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Not too long ago, I purchased one of her bowls on eBay and am in the process of restoring it to its former beauty after one of its previous owners had coated the back of it with Kelly green paint! https://www.facebook.com/
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