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Peter Voulkos Artwork

Peter Voulkos, Walking Man
1957

Stoneware with glaze and epoxies
17 x 12 x 8 inches
Signed

Collection:
Scripps College, Claremont, California; Marer Collection.

Provenance:
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marer.
Collection of Scripps College, Claremont, California; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marer.

Exhibitions:
Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California, The Fred and Mary Marer Collection: 30th Annual Ceramics Exhibition, 19 March-28 April 1974. Catalogue, checklist #103, ill.

Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, The Continental Clay Connection, 12 September-19 October 1980. Catalogue, ill. p. 49.

The Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, California Innovations, September-October 1981, catalogue, ill.

Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, California, Earth and Fire: The Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, 4 March-1 April 1984. Catalogue, checklist, p. 80.

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California. Revolution in Clay: The Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, 22 October-4 December 1994. Catalogue, ill. p. 92, color plate 40.

Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland. La Libération de l'Argile: Aux Sources de la Céramique Contemporaine Américaine, 15 June-16 October 2000. Catalogue, checklist #50, cover ill.

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California. Rebels in Clay: Peter Voulkos and the Otis Group, accompanying Feat of Clay: Five Decades of Jerry Rothman, 26 October 2003-22 February 2004.

San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector, 9 May-29 June 2008.

The American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California, Best Kept Secret: The Scripps College Ceramic Collection, 11 January-30 March 2014.

Literature:
Melchert, Jim and Paul Soldner, “Fred Marer and the Clay People,” Craft Horizons, June 1974, ill. p. 39

Andréani, Carole, “Peter Voulkos: Naissance de la Céramique Américaine,” La Revue de la Céramique et du Verre, (France), March-April 2007, ill. p. 26.

Photo: © Scripps College, Claremont, California

Lost Found

Rocking Pot

Untitled

Untitled

Covered Jar

Jar with Cover

Jar with Cover

Vase

Woman & Satyr Plate

Plate

Found

Plate

Plate

Plate

Bullfight Plate

Dancin’ Ladies

Plate

Bird Rust Plate

Bird Stencil Pot

Covered Vessel

Found

Walking Man

Goblet

Stencil Vase

Vase

Vase

Vase

Hobgoblin

Woman with Gash

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