Beatrice Wood

Beatrice Wood
Beatrice Wood, 1908
Born(1893-03-03)March 3, 1893
DiedMarch 12, 1998(1998-03-12) (aged 105)
Known forCeramics, figure sculpture, lusterware
MovementDada
Spouses
  • Paul Renson (annulled),
Steve Hoag
(m. 1938⁠–⁠1960)

Beatrice Wood (March 3, 1893 – March 12, 1998) was an American artist and studio potter involved in the Dada movement in the United States; she founded and edited The Blind Man and Rongwrong magazines in New York City with French artist Marcel Duchamp and writer Henri-Pierre Roché in 1917. She had earlier studied art and theater in Paris, and was working in New York as an actress. She later worked at sculpture and pottery. Wood was characterized as the "Mama of Dada".

Wood partially inspired the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater in the 1998 film Titanic. She died nine days after her 105th birthday in Ojai, California.