Jonathan Browne Hunt

Jonathan Hunt was trained in the Fulper Pottery at Flemington, New Jersey and worked with Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati and Orlando Pottery in Orlando. After the retirement of Joseph Meyer, Hunt came to Newcomb College as a ceramic chemist in 1927 and remained until 1933. He was a ceramic demonstrator of the Haeger Potteries of Dundee, Illinois at the Century of Progress Fair in Chicago in 1934-1935. He also worked at Broadmoor Pottery Company in Denver and was a consultant to several potters. He died November 12, 1943.

[Source: Excerpted from Newcomb Centennial, 1886-1986: An Exhibition of Art by the Art Faculty by Judith H. Bonner, exhibition catalog, published by Newcomb College, Tulane University, 1986, p. 31]