Carol Janeway

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

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.

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.

[13] 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.

[17] 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.

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.

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

[20] [21] 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.

Jenssen, Victoria, foreword by Pat Kirkham, The Art of Carol Janeway: A Tile & Ceramics Career with Georg Jensen Inc. and Ossip Zadkine in 1940s Manhattan.