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Peter Voulkos Artwork

Peter Voulkos, Vase
1958 [aka Bird Vase]

Stoneware with glaze
9 x 15 x 15 inches
Signed and dated

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:
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York. The Collector, 7 June-2 September 1974.

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. 96, color plate 44.

Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland. La Libération de l'Argile: Aux Sources de la Céramique Contemporaine Américaine, 15 June-16 October 2000. Catalogue, checklist #57, ill. p. 62.

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.

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California, 75th Ceramic Annual, 26 January-7 April 2019, Catalogue, ill. p. 89.

Literature:
“The Collector,” Ceramics Monthly, October 1974, ill. p. 40.

Photo: © Sam Jornlin

Lost Found

Untitled

Untitled

Sculptured Container

Vase

Untitled

Plate

Sand Plate

Blue Plate

Sand Vase

Found

Untitled

Bird Vase

Vase

Picasso’s Eye

Vee

Chicken Pot

Pottery I

Pot

Plate

Found

Vase

Vase

Sculpture

Soleares II

Untitled

Rasgeado

5000 Feet

Burnt Smog

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