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Peter Voulkos Artwork

Peter Voulkos, Blue and Gray
1959

Stoneware with glaze
52 x 21 x 16 inches
Signed and dated

Collection:
Private collection

Provenance:
Private collection

Exhibitions:
Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Third Pacific Coast Biennial: An Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Artists of California, Oregon and Washington, 9 October-8 November 1959; traveled to the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego; Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles; Portland Art Museum; Henry Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle; and the M.H. De Young Museum, San Francisco. Catalogue, ill. fig. 43.

Palo Alto Cultural Center, California. Inceendiary Spirits (one of three exhibitions comprising From the Fire: Three Exhibitions in Clay). 17 January-25 April 1993.

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, plate 45.

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California. Peter Voulkos Ceramics, January 2003-January 2004.

Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York. Peter Voulkos: Works, 1956-1997, 17 October-23 November 2013.

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, 8 July-14 August 2015.

Selected Literature:
Smith, Roberta. “Review: ‘What Nerve!’ Presents an Alternative History of American Art,” New York Times, August 6, 2015, p. C21, ill.

Adamson, Glenn, et al. Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years, Museum of Arts and Design, New York and Black Dog Publishing Ltd., London, 2016, p. 68, ill. p. 69, fig. 8.

Photo: © Schopplein Studio

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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