LOT DETAILS

Materials:

stoneware, paddled and constructed wheel-thrown elements, brushed cobalt, iron, and white slips, epoxy

Measurements:

62.01 in. (157.50 cm.) (height) by 37.76 in. (95.90 cm.) (width) by 32.52 in. (82.60 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

incised 1958/VOULKOS

Exhibited:

Ceramics, Sculpture and Paintings by Peter H. Voulkos,' Pasadena Art Museum, December 16, 1958-January 25, 1959 'Peter Voulkos: Sculpture, Painting, Ceramics,' Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, May 4-May 23, 1959 'Peter Voulkos: Sculpture,' Los Angeles County Museum of Art, April 14-June 20, 1965 'Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties,' Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 21-October 4, 1981 and then traveled to San Antonio Museum of Art, November 20, 1981-January 31, 1982

Literature:

Peter Voulkos: Sculpture, Painting, Ceramics, exh. cat., Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, 1959, illustrated p. 10 Peter Voulkos: Sculpture, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1965, illustrated, n.p. Thomas Albright, 'Peter Voulkos, What Do You Call Yourself?,' ARTnews, October 1978, illustrated p. 119 Rose Slivka, Peter Voulkos: A Dialogue With Clay, exh. cat., New York Graphic and American Crafts Council, New York, 1978, illustrated pl. 12 'Living with the Arts,' American Craft, December 1980/January 1981, illustrated p. 24 Maurice Tuchman, Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1981, illustrated p. 52 Elaine Levin, The History of American Ceramics 1607 to the Present: From Pipkins and Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms, New York, 1988, illustrated p. 205 Mary Davis MacNaughton, ed., Clay's Tectonic Shift 1956-1968: John Mason, Ken Price, Peter Voulkos, exh. cat., Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, 2012, illustrated p. 131 Glenn Adamson, et. al., Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years, exh. cat., Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2016, illustrated p. 144 Carole Andreani, 'Peter Voulkos au MAD de New-York,' La revue de la ceramique et du verre, March-April, 2017, illustrated p. 16

Provenance:

Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner in 1959