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Peter Voulkos, Flying Black
1958

Stoneware with glaze
39 x 45 x 24 inches

Collection:
Private collection

Provenance:
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Weisman.
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Weisman.
Private collection

Exhibitions:
Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles. Peter Voulkos: Sculpture/Painting/Ceramics, 4-23 May 1959. Catalogue, ill.

San Francisco Museum of Art. Peter Voulkos: A Retrospective: 1948-1978. (organized by the American Crafts Council, New York) 17 February-2 April 1978. Traveled. Checklist #48.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists, 9 December 1981-7 February 1982. Traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Catalogue, ill. p. 43.

The Oakland Museum of California. The Art of Peter Voulkos, 22 July-12 November 1995. Traveled to the Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California and the American Craft Museum, New York. Book, ill. p. 134, color plate 52.

Selected Literature:
Nordland Gerald, Peter Voulkos: Paintings and Works on Paper, c. 1957-1988, The Twining Gallery, New York, 1988, ill. p. [3].

Lebow, Edward. “The Art of Peter Voulkos,” American Craft, February/March, 1996, ill. p. 34-35

Galusha, Emily, and Mary Ann Nord, eds., Clay Talks: Reflections by American Master Ceramists, Regis Masters Series 1997-2000, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2004, ill., color plate, p. xx.

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. 134, color plate 52.

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.

Photo: © schoppleinstudio.com

Lost Found

Black Butte Divide

Little Black

Soleares

Rondena

Black Bulerias

Flying Black

Sculpture

Pottery II

Teapot

Found

Little Big Horn

Sitting Bull

Solano

Tientos

Camelback Mountain

Annon

Blue & Gray

Hack's Rock

Untitled

Found

Snake River

Image for Graves

Plate

Plate

Plate

Vase

Cross

Gallas Rock 

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