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Rondena

Peter Voulkos, Rondena
1958

Stoneware with glaze
64 x 47 x 46 inches

Collection:
Private collection.

Provenance:
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sperling.
Collection of Betty and Stanley Sheinbaum.
Private collection.

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

Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles. Peter Voulkos: Sculpture/Painting/Ceramics, 4-23 May 1959. Catalogue, ill. [p. 10.]

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Peter Voulkos: Sculpture, 14 April-20 June 1965. Catalogue, checklist #1, ill.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties, 21 July-4 October 1981. Traveled. Catalogue, checklist #115, p. 98, ill. color plate, p. 52.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, Crafting America, 6 February-31 May 2021.

Selected Literature:
“L.A. Art: Our Artists Are Creating the City Beautiful,” The Los Angeles Examiner, Pictorial Living, Week of July 26, 1959, p. 9, ill.

Primus-Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles. Poster-sized announcement for solo exhibition, Voulkos, October 1961, ill.

Albright, Thomas. “Peter Voulkos, What Do You Call Yourself?,” Artnews, October 1978, ill. p. 119.

Slivka, Rose. Peter Voulkos: A Dialogue with Clay, New York Graphics Society in association with American Crafts Council, New York, 1978, ill. color plate 12.

“Living with the Arts,” American Craft, December 1980/January 1981, pp. 24-25, ill. p. 24.

Levin, Elaine, The History of American Ceramics: 1607 to the Present/From Pipkins and Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms, Harry A. Abrams, New York, 1988, color ill. p. 205, fig. 193.

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. 131, color plate 49.

Adamson, Glenn, et al, Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years, Museum of Arts and Design, New York and Black Dog Publishing Ltd., London, 2016, ill. p. 144, fig. 11.

Andréani, Carole, “Peter Voulkos: Naissance de la Céramique Américaine,” La Revue de la Céramique et du Verre, (France), March-April 2017, ill. p. 16.

Adamson, Glenn. “Why the Art World Is Embracing Craft,” Artsy (online), Jan 13, 2020, ill.

Photo: F.J. Thomas

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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