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Solano

Peter Voulkos, Solano
1959

Stoneware with glaze
62 x 36-3/4 x 22 inches
Signed and dated

Collection:
The Oakland Museum of California: Gift of Ted and Ruth Nash.

Provenance:
Collection of Ted and Ruth Nash.
Collection of the Oakland Museum of California: Gift of Ted and Ruth Nash.

Exhibitions:
National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, 20 May-11 September 1977. Catalogue.

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 #65.

Oakland Museum of California. A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Art Collection, 24 August-30 December 2007.

Selected Literature:
Artnews Summer 1977, ill. p. 135.

Albright, Thomas. “The Nation/San Francisco: Convulsions of Clay,” Artnews, April 1978, ill. p. 114.

Donhauser, Paul S. History of American Ceramics: The Studio Potter, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, Iowa, 1978, ill. pp. 138, 154, fig. 11-23.

Levin, Elaine. “Peter Voulkos: A Ceramics Monthly Portfolio,” Ceramics Monthly, June, 1978, ill. p. 60.

Slivka, Rose. Peter Voulkos: A Dialogue with Clay, New York Graphics Society in association with American Crafts Council, New York, 1978, ill. p. 51, figure 32.

Jensen, Dean. “Voulkos Shattered Tradition in a Big Way,” Milwaukee Sentinel, February 23, 1979, pp. 10, 15-16, ill.

Slivka, Rose and Karen Tsujimoto. The Art of Peter Voulkos, Kodansha International in collaboration with The Oakland Museum, 1995; ill. p. 70, plate 25.

Andréani, Carole. “Peter Voulkos: Naissance de la Céramique Américaine,” La Revue de la Céramique et du Verre, (France), March-April 2007, ill. p. 29.

Baker, Kenneth. “Galleries/Kenneth Baker: The Nash Collection in Oakland,“ San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 31, 2007, ill.

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. 142, plate 59.

Photo: © Schopplein Studio

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Little Black

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Pottery II

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Found

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Sitting Bull

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Tientos

Camelback Mountain

Annon

Blue & Gray

Hack's Rock

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Found

Snake River

Image for Graves

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Plate

Plate

Vase

Cross

Gallas Rock 

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