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Peter Voulkos, Untitled Plate
1963

Stoneware with glaze
4-3/4 x 16 x 12-3/4 inches
signed and dated

Collection:
Scripps College, Claremont, California: Marer Collection

Provenance:
Fred Marer, Los Angeles
Scripps College, Claremont, California: Marer Collection

Exhibitions:
Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, Abstract Expressionist Ceramics, 28 October-27 November 1966. Traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Catalogue; text by John Coplans; ill. p. 25, checklist #80.

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Kompas 4: West Coast USA, 21 November 1969-4 January 1970. Traveled in Europe. Catalogue; foreword by Jean Leering, Eugen Thiemannn and Zdenek Felix, essay by Jean Leering. Ill. pp. 25, 37, checklist #58.

Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California, The Fred and Mary Marer Collection: 30th Annual Ceramics Exhibition, 19 March-28 April 1974. Catalogue, checklist #111.

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 #96.

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, A Century of Ceramics in the United States, 1878-1978, 5 May-23 September 1979. Traveled nationally. Book; text by Garth Clark and Margie Hughto.

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. 81, plate 55.

Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California, John Mason, Ken Price, Peter Voulkos, 5 September-3 October 1998

University of California, San Diego, Rebels in Clay: Peter Voulkos and the Otis Group, 7 February-19 April 2003.

Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Voulkos:The Breakthrough Years. 18 October 2016-15 March 2017, checklist #26. Traveled to the Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C. 7 April-20 August 2017. Catalogue, pp. 75, 100, 173, 187; ill. p. 172, color plate 27.

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California, 75th Ceramic Annual, 26 January-7 April 2019, Catalogue, ill. p. 91.

Literature:
Carroll, Nancy, “A Conversation with Peter Voulkos,” North Shore Art League News, March, 1972, ill. p. 5.

Slivka, Rose. Peter Voulkos: A Dialogue with Clay, New York: New York Graphic Society in association with the American Crafts Council, 1978, ill. color plate 13.

Slivka, Rose. “Erasing the Line Separating the Arts from Crafts,” Smithsonian, March 1978, ill. p. 89.

Kaneko, Jun. “Reflections on the Voulkos Retrospective,” Craft Horizons, February 1979, ill. p. 31.

Preaud, Tamara and Serge Gauthier. Ceramics of the Twentieth Century, New York: Rizzoli International, 1982: ill. color plate, p. 155, fig. 273.

Slivka, Rose and Karen Tsujimoto. The Art of Peter Voulkos, Kodansha International in collaboration with The Oakland Museum, 1995; ill. p. 78, plate 35.

Tuchman, Phyllis. “On Fire: Peter Voulkos’s ’Breakthrough Years’ Shine at the Renwick Gallery,” ARTNEWS, posted online June 21, 2017.

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