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Snake River

Peter Voulkos, Snake River
1959

Stoneware with glaze
41-1/2 x 27-1/2 x 10 inches
Signed

Collection:
Private collection.

Provenance:
Collection of Professor and Mrs. R. Joseph Monsen.
Collection of Jerome and Patricia Shaw.
Private collection.

Exhibitions:
Contemporary Crafts Association, Portland, Oregon, Contemporary American Ceramics: The R. Joseph Monsen Collection, 10 March-8 April 1967. Traveled to Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, 23 April-21 May. Catalogue.

San Francisco Museum of Art, A Decade of Ceramic Art, 1962-1972, 14 October-3 December 1972. Catalogue, checklist #132, ill.

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 #73.

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Peter Voulkos: Ceramics from the Collection of Jerome and Patricia Shaw, 13 November 1991-12 January 1992.

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. 71, color plate 43.

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California, Clay’s Tectonic Shift: John Mason, Ken Price and Peter Voulkos, 1956-1968, 21 January-8 April 2012. Catalogue, ill. p. 145, color plate 62.

Selected Literature:
Fagan, Beth. “Portlanders to View Unique Private Collection of Ceramics,” The Sunday Oregonian. March 5, 1967, ill. p. 24.

Slivka, Rose. Peter Voulkos: A Dialogue with Clay, New York Graphics Society in association with American Crafts Council, New York, 1978, ill. p. 60, figure 37.

Whitney, Kathleen. “Clay Culture: Pacific Standard Time,” Ceramics Monthly. April 2012, ill. p. 24.

Photo: © Schopplein Studio

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Annon

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Hack's Rock

Untitled

Found

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Plate

Plate

Vase

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Gallas Rock 

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