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Peter Voulkos, Vase
1958 [aka Bird Vase]

Stoneware with glaze
18-1/8 x 20-3/4 x 7 inches
Signed and dated

Collection:
Minnnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul; Acquisition Fund Purchase.

Provenance:
Collection of the Minnnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul; Acquisition Fund Purchase.

Exhibitions:
Saint Paul Gallery and School of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota. Fiber-Clay-Metal: The Saint Paul Gallery Fifth Biennial, 15 November-23 December 1959. Catalogue, checklist no. 174.

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 #70.

Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Peter Voulkos Retrospective. 2 January-20 February 1995. Traveled to the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 28 February-2 April 1995. Catalogue; texts by Rose Slivka, Hisako Tsuchida and Ryuichi Matsubara; ill. p. 70, color plate 42.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Fresh from the Studio: Craft in Twin Cities Collections 1950-1970. 11 June 2006-22 April 2007.

College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, Minnesota. Generation Abstraction: Selections from the Minnesota Museum of American Art. 11-28 March 2010.

St. Paul Academy and Summit School, St. Paul, Minnesota. Ceramics Then/Ceramics Now, (organized by the Minnesota Museum of American Art), 30 September-23 October 2010.

Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth. Our Treasures: Highlights from the Minnesota Museum of American Art. 23 August-23 October 2011. Traveled to Hillstrom Museum of Art, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnnesota; Perlman Teaching Museum, Weitz Center for Creativity, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota; Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Catalogue, ill. p. 74.

Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul. The Good Making of Good Things: Craft Horizons, 1941-1979, 7 March-2 June 2019.

Literature:
Falino, Jeannine. “Crafts on Target in New MIA Wing,” American Craft, June/July 2007, ill. p. 52.

Van Cleve, Jane, ed. 3934 Corbett: Fifty Years at Contemporary Crafts, The Contemporary Crafts Association, Portland, Oregon, 1986, ill. p. 44, color plate 101.

Photo: © Schopplein Studio

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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