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Ceramics 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Paintings Prints Bronzes	Peter Voulkos, Standing Jar Circa 1956 Stoneware with glaze 22-1/2 x 16 x 17 inches Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Provenance: Collection of Mitzi Landau. Collection of Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits. Collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Gift of Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary (M.90.82.55). Exhibitions: Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, Voulkos Pottery, 26 March-14 April 1956. [High probability that Standing Jar was included in this exhibition.] 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. 52, plate 34. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000, 4 June-17 September 2000; travels to Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Catalogue/Book, ill. p. 120. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. California Design, 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way,” 1 October 2011-3 June 2012. Traveled to The National Art Center, Tokyo, 20 March-3 June 2013; Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, 6 July-29 September 2013; Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Australia, 2 November 2013-9 February 2014; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, 29 March-6 July 2014. Catalogue/Book, p. 205, fig. 7.3, ill. p. 204, checklist #302, p. 340. Museum of Arts and Design, New York, Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years, 18 October 2016-15 March 2017, checklist #6. Travels to the Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C. 7 April-20 August 2017. Catalogue, pp. 124, 184, 186; ill. color plate, p. 125. Literature: Drexler Lynn, Martha. Clay Today: Contemporary Ceramists and their Work: a Catalogue of the Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1990, p. 221, ill. pp. 154, 221. Kaplan, Wendy, ed. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2011. ill. p.204. Lynn, Martha Drexler, American Studio Ceramics: Innovation and Identity 1940-1979, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2015, ill. p. 102. Credit: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Gift of Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary (M.90.82.55). Photo: © Museum Associates/ LACMA		Lost	Found Plate Figures Plate Plate Plate Plate Stencil Figures Plate Stencil Figures Plate Squared Plate Pinch Pot	Found Covered Jar Tall Covered Jar Plate Container with Cover Jar Untitled Slab Bowl Three Handled Vase Black Slab Vase	Found Standing Jar Untitled Walking Woman Untitled Zen Pod Vase Untitled Vase Rasgeado < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >
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