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Vee

Peter Voulkos, Vee
1958

Stoneware with glaze
35-1/4 x 22-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches
Signed and dated

Collection:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Gift from the Estate of John Lowell Jones and Charlotte Johnson Jones, 2004.

Provenance:
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Lowell Jones.
Collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Gift from the Estate of John Lowell Jones and Charlotte Johnson Jones, 2004.

Exhibitions:
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 #51.

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. 69, color plate 37.

Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Arts and Design, 12 October 2011-15 January 2012. Traveled to the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York. Book, ill. color plate p. 138.

Selected Literature:
The Penland Book of Ceramics, Lark Books, 2003, ill. p. 142.

Peterson, Susan and Jan Peterson. The Craft and Art of Clay, 4th edition, The Overlook Press, Woodstock and New York, 2003, ill. p. 89.

Rosenberg, Karen. “Hewn, Spun, Joined, Sandwiched, Cemented,” The New York Times, October 23, 2011, ill. p. C29.

Sanders, Beverly. “Living History at MAD's ’Crafting Modernism,” American Craft, Published online on Tuesday, November 1, 2011.

Huxtable, Ada Louise. “Coming in from the Cold,” Wall Street Journal, December 22, 2011, p. D6.

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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