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Burnt Smog

Peter Voulkos, Burnt Smog
1958 [aka Funiculated Smog]

Stoneware with slip
35 x 26 inches
Signed and dated

Collection:
Fallingwater, Mill Run, Pennsylvania.

Provenance:
Collection of Edgar Kaufmann Jr.
Collection of Fallingwater, Mill Run, Pennsylvania.

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

Los Angeles County Museum, Exposition Park. 1958 Annual Exhibition: Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, 21 May-29 June 1958. Catalogue, checklist #180, ill. p. 32, cited as Burned Smog in the description.

Selected Literature:
Leavitt, Thomas W., Peter Voulkos: Sculpture/Painting/Ceramics, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1959, ill. unpaginated [p. 11.]

“New Talent 1959 Sculpture,” Art in America, No. 1, Spring 1959, p. 37. Caption refers to it as Funiculation Smog.

Lauria, Jo et al. Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art in assocociation with Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2000, ill, p. 16.

Photo: © voulkos.com

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