Glen Lukens studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1913, then developed a pottery program to rehabilitate wounded soldiers returning from World War I. He was fascinated by the bright blue glaze on an Egyptian figure he had seen in a museum, and in 1924 he went to California to try to recreate the glaze.
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