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Peter Voulkos, Red River
ca. 1960

Stoneware with slip, glaze and epoxy paint
37 x 12-1/2 x 14-1/2 inches

Collection:
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc., 66.42

Provenance:
Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc., 66.42

Exhibitions:
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, XXI Ceramic National, 13 November 1960-8 January 1961, Catalogue, checklist #308. Traveled to the Roberson Memorial Center, Binghamton, NY; the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Baltimore Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Cranbrook Academy of Art; Michigan; Flint Institute of Arts; The Denver Art Museum; Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri and the Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York. Catalogue for the circulating exhibit, checklist #211, ill. p. 23.

Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, The American Craftsman, 22 May-13 September 1964, Catalogue, checklist #223.

Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, Clay, 23 May-4 July 1974. Catalogue, checklist #75, 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 #79.

Whitney Museum of American Art, Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists, 9 December-7 February 1981; traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 8 April-27 June 1982. Catalogue, ill. plate, p. 51.

The Oakland Museum of California, The Art of Peter Voulkos, 22 July-12 November 1995; traveled to the Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California and the American Craft Museum, New York, Catalogue/Book, ill. p. 25, color plate 9.

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay, 16 January-21 June 2008; traveled to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 11 July-29 November 2009, Catalogue, ill. pp. 14, 74.

Literature:
Magloff, Joanna. “Peter Voulkos,” Artforum, August 1963, ill. p. 29.

Coplans, John. “Circles of Styles on the West Coast,” Art in America, December 1964, ill. p. 31.

Bauer, John I.H., foreword. Contemporary American Sculpture Selection 1, (assembled by The Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation and the Whitney Museum of American Art,) 1966, ill, p. 39.

Schjedahl, Peter. “Playful Improvisation of West Coast Ceramic Art,” New York Times, June 9, 1974, p. 24.

Slivka, Rose. Peter Voulkos: A Dialogue with Clay, New York. New York Graphic Society in association with the American Crafts Council, 1978, ill. color plate 10.

Levin, Elaine. “Peter Voulkos: A Retrospective, 1948-1978,” Artweek, 18 March 1978, ill. p. 1.

Donhauser, Paul S., History of American Ceramics: The Studio Potter, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, Iowa, 1978, ill. p. 153.

Kenngott, Louise. “Peter Voulkos Builds a Bridge,” The Milwaukee Journal, 18 February 1979, ill. p. 1.

Lebow, Edward. “The Art of Peter Voulkos,” Craft Horizons, February/March 1996, ill. p. 36.

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