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Peter Voulkos, Untitled 1956 (two views) Stoneware with glaze 30-1/2 × 15 inches diameter Signed and dated Collection: Philadelphia Museum of Art. Provenance: Collection of Barbara and Peter Freund. Collection of Philadelphia Museum of Art; Purchased with the Leonard and Norma Klorfine Foundation Endowed Fund for Modern and Contemporary Craft, 2013. Exhibitions: Department of Decorative Arts, The Art Institute of Chicago. Third Midwest Designer-Craftsmen 1957 Honor Awards-Peter Voulkos, 27 March-24 April 1957. Catalogue. 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. 56, color plate 23. Museum of Arts and Design, New York, Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years, 18 October 2016-15 March 2017, checklist #9. Travels to the Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C. 7 April-20 August 2017. Catalogue, pp. 135, 186; ill. p. 134, color plate 10; p. 135, fig. 10, p. 139. Literature: Midwest Designer-Craftsmen Show, Chicago Sun-Times, March 27, 1957, ill. Philadelphia Museum of Art Handbook, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pa. 2014; p. 384, ill. p. 385. Kephart, Beth. Spreading the Joy of Crafts, The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 24, 2016, ill. Rosenberg, Karen, Peter Voulkos: an Influential Sculptor Who Broke the Rules, The New York Times, December 29, 2016, ill. (online version). Adamson, Glenn. Front: Rewriting the Rules, Crafts magazine, England, January/February 2017, ill. p. 17. Andréani, Carole. Peter Voulkos: Naissance de la Céramique Américaine, La Revue de la Céramique et du Verre, (France), March-April 2017, ill. pp. 14, 15. Tuchman, Phyllis. On Fire: Peter Voulkoss Breakthrough Years Shine at the Renwick Gallery, ARTNEWS, posted online June 21, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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