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Black Butte Divide

Peter Voulkos, Black Butte Divide
1958

Stoneware with glaze
47-1/2 x 41 x 32 inches
Signed and dated

Collection:
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, California

Provenance:
Collection of Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, California; Museum purchase.

Exhibitions:
Pasadena Art Museum, California. Ceramics, Sculpture and Paintings by Peter H. Voulkos, 16 December 1958-25 January 1959.

Pasadena Museum of Art, A Decade in the Contemporary Galleries, 19 July-15 September 1959, Catalogue, checklist #173.

Battersea Park, London. Sculpture in the Open Air, May-September 1963, Catalogue, ill. fig. 42.

Selected Literature:
Leavitt, Thomas W., Peter Voulkos: Sculpture/Painting/Ceramics, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1959, ill. [p. 10.]

Slivka, Rose. Peter Voulkos: A Dialogue with Clay, New York Graphics Society in association with American Crafts Council, New York, 1978, ill. p. 44, fig. 25.

Slivka Rose, Hisako Tsuchida and Ryuichi Matsubara. Peter Voulkos Retrospective. Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1995, ill. p. 3.

Belloli, Jay, Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974, published by the Armory Center for the Arts and the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 1999, ill. p. 17.

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. ill. pp. 23, 64, 133.

Crow, Thomas. The Long March of Pop: Art, Music and Design, 1930-1995, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2015, ill. p. 209.

A Living Work of Art: The Norton Simon Museum Sculpture Garden, The Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 2015, p. 108, ill. pp. 108-109.

Adamson, Glenn, et al. Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years, Museum of Arts and Design, New York and Black Dog Publishing Ltd., London, 2016, pp. 39, 69, 144; ill. p. 10; p. 72, fig. 10.

Lilley, Clare and Phaidon Editors, Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramic in Contemporary Art, Phaidon Press, London and New York, 2017, color ill. p. 013.

Photo: © Sam Jornlin

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Untitled

Vee

5000 Feet

Found

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Black Butte Divide

Rondena

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Little Big Horn

Sitting Bull

Found

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Hack's Rock

Image for Graves

Snake River

Cross

Gallas Rock 

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