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Ceramics 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Paintings Prints Bronzes	Peter Voulkos, Rasgeado 1956 Stoneware with glaze 31 x 14 x 12 inches Signed and dated Collection: Private collection Provenance: Acquired from the artist. Private collection. Exhibitions: Department of Decorative Arts, The Art Institute of Chicago. Third Midwest Designer-Craftsmen 1957 Honor Awards-Peter Voulkos, 27 March-24 April 1957. Catalogue. Asilomar, California. First American Craftsmen’s Conference, 12-14 June 1957. Catalogue. United States Pavilion, Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles, Belgium. Contemporary American Art, 18 April-21 July 1958. Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, Abstract Expressionist Ceramics, 28 October-27 November 1966. Traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Catalogue; text by John Coplans; checklist #64. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Kansas City Collects: Contemporary Ceramics, 28 January-12 March 1989. Catalogue, ill. Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Peter Voulkos Retrospective. 2 January-20 February 1995. Traveled to the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 28 February-2 April 1995. Catalogue; texts by Rose Slivka, Hisako Tsuchida and Ryuichi Matsubara; ill. p. 55, color plate 22. Museum of Arts and Design, New York, Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years, 18 October 2016-15 March 2017, checklist #7. Travels to the Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C. 7 April-20 August 2017. Catalogue, pp. 39, 127, 129, 138, 156; ill. pp. 126-127, color plate 7; p. 139. Literature: “Midwest Designer-Craftsmen Show,” Chicago Sun-Times, March 27, 1957, ill. p. 162. “An Exhibitions at Asilomar,” Craft Horizons, August 1957, ill. [p. 31.] “U.S. Crafts at Brussels,” Craft Horizons, May/June 1958, ill. p. 20. Slivka, Rose. “U.S. Crafts in this Industrial Society,” Craft Horizons, March/April 1959, ill. p. 10. Slivka, Rose and Karen Tsujimoto. The Art of Peter Voulkos, Kodansha International in collaboration with The Oakland Museum, 1995; ill. p. 44, fig. 4. MacNaughton, Mary Davis, ed. Clay’s Tectonic Shift: John Mason, Ken Price and Peter Voulkos, 1956-1968, Getty Publications in association with the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, Claremont, California, 2012, ill. p. 127, color plate 45. Rosenberg, Karen, “Peter Voulkos: an Influential Sculptor Who Broke the Rules,” The New York Times, December 29, 2016 ill. (online version). Adamson, Glenn, “Front: Rewriting the Rules,” Crafts magazine, England, January/February 2017, ill. p. 17 (detail). Deming, Richard. “On Site: Reinventing the Wheel: Richard Deming on Peter Voulkos,” Artforum, March, 2017, p. 119. Andréani, Carole. “Peter Voulkos: Naissance de la Céramique Américaine,” La Revue de la Céramique et du Verre, (France), March-April 2017, ill. pp. 14, 15. Harvey, Lucy. “The Ceramicist Who Punched His Pots,” Smithsonian.com, posted online April 19, 2017. Spinozzi, Adrienne et al. Shapes From Out of Nowhere: Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, August Editions, 2021, ill. p. 15, fig. 16. Photo: © Schopplein Studio		Lost	Found Plate Figures Plate Plate Plate Plate Stencil Figures Plate Stencil Figures Plate Squared Plate Pinch Pot	Found Covered Jar Tall Covered Jar Plate Container with Cover Jar Untitled Slab Bowl Three Handled Vase Black Slab Vase	Found Standing Jar Untitled Walking Woman Untitled Zen Pod Vase Untitled Vase Rasgeado < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >
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