quest heading image
quest heading image

Ceramics

   1950s

   1960s

   1970s

   1980s

   1990s

   2000s

Paintings

Prints

Bronzes
Covered Jar

Peter Voulkos, Covered Jar
1953

Stoneware with slip
17 x 9 inches diameter
Signed

Collection:
Collection of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York.

Provenance:
Collection of Aileen Osborn Webb.
Collection of the American Craft Museum, (now the Museum of Arts and Design) New York; Gift of Aileen Osborn Webb, 1967; donated to the American Craft Museum by the American Craft Council, 1990.

Exhibitions:
1955 Palais Miramar, Cannes, France. L’Exposition International de la Céramique. 21-26 June 1955. Circulated through Western Europe by United States Department of Information, Washington, D.C.

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 #8.

American Craft Museum, New York, Four Decades of Discovery: The 40th Anniversary of the American Craft Museum, 27 June 1996-23 February 1997. Catalogue, ill. p. 7.

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, California Dreamers: Ceramic Artists from the MAD Collection, 11 January-10 October 2010

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, What Would Mrs. Webb Do? A Founder's Vision, 23 September 2014-8 February 2015

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years, 18 October 2016-15 March 2017, checklist #2. Travels to the Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C. 7 April-20 August 2017. Catalogue, pp. 13, 114, 186; ill. p. 115, color plate 2.

Literature:
Mailliard, Dominique. “The International Exposition of Ceramics at Cannes,” Craft Horizons, September/October 1955, ill. p. 12.

Nelson, Glenn C. A Potter’s Handbook,3rd ed., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., NY, 1971, ill. p. 135, fig. 286.

Slivka, Rose. Peter Voulkos: A Dialogue with Clay, New York: New York Graphic Society in association with the American Crafts Council, 1978, ill. p. 7, fig. 3.

Slivka, Rose and Karen Tsujimoto. The Art of Peter Voulkos, Kodansha International in collaboration with The Oakland Museum, 1995; ill. p. 65, plate 20.

“Exposure,” Ceramics Monthly, November 2016, color ill. p. 14, fig. 5.

Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney, Martin Eidelberg and Adrienne Spinozzi, American Art Pottery: The Robert A. Ellison Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2018, ill. p. 348, fig. 391.

Photo: © Schopplein Studio

Lost Found

Bottle

Covered Jar

Vase

Vase

Leaf Vase

Tureen

Striped Vase

Large Vase

Tureen

Found

Covered Jar

Babe the Blue Ox

Slip Trailed Vase

Tureen

Small Bowl

Tea Bowl

Vase

Covered Container

Tureen

Found

Untitled

Chocolate Pot

Teapot

Bottle

Large Bowl

Vase

Vase

Small Bowl

< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >

link to main page     Home
  Portfolio
  Biographyspacer
  Questspacer
  Newsletterspacer
  Infospacer
© 1997-2020  Voulkos & Co. All rights reserved.
contact information