Paul Genter spent a
few years in southern California between work in
Seattle in the mid 1920s and his return to
Colorado in 1933.
Genter came to California after parting company with his
third wife and child in Seattle. He
worked a number of jobs in Colorado, Utah and
Washington, after attending Cutler Academy in
Colorado Springs. In his twenties he was
superintendent of a fruit farm near Denver, but
later mostly worked as a salesman for equipment
companies.
Note that Cecil Jones was 17
years older than Genter and had been an
experienced ceramist and tile designer
his entire adult life. One might
imagine in a short number of years Genter emerged
from working in equipment sales to becoming the
artist Who's Who in American Art claimed (askart.com
pdf).
And in the 1930s he was
certainly effective at assembling the backing and
talent for his effort at Broadmoor Pottery: Cecil
Jones & Eric Hellman in Colorado Springs and
Jonathon Hunt & Howard Lewis in Denver. He also
later helped make possible Imperial Porcelain Co's
association with cartoonist
Paul Webb in Zanesville (article).
