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Peter Voulkos, Sculpture
1959

Stoneware with slips and glaze
26 x 13-1/2 x 11 inches
Signed "Voulkos"

Collection:
Private collection

Provenance:
Albert Levinson
Private collections

Exhibitions:
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ostend, Belgium, La Céramique Contemporaine, sponsored by the Second International Congress of Contemporary Ceramics, 5 July-5 October 1959. Catalogue, checklist #46, ill. Voulkos was awarded a silver medal for his work in this exhibition.

The New Gallery, Department of Art, School of Fine Arts, State University of Iowa, Clay Today, 4 December 1962-8 January 1963. Catalogue, p. 18, checklist #1, ill. plate 22.

Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, Abstract Expressionist Ceramics, 28 October-27 November 1966. traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Catalogue, checklist #69.

Literature:
Plagens, Peter. Sunshine Muse: Contemporary Art on the West Coast, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1974, ill. p. 98, fig. 77. (Paperback edition published by the University of California Press in 2000.)

Slivka, Rose. Peter Voulkos: A Dialogue with Clay, New York Graphics Society in association with American Crafts Council, New York, 1978, p. 43, figure 24.

Andréani, Carole, “Peter Voulkos: Naissance de la Céramique Américaine,” La Revue de la Céramique et du Verre, (France), March-April 2007, ill. p. 28.

Photo: © schoppleinstudio.com

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