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Rudy Autio Art

American, b. 1926

Rudy Autio is considered one of the most important and influential ceramic artists to ever touch the medium of clay. His masterful works are in permanent collections of museums around the world including the American Craft Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Carnegie Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Applied Arts Museum in Helsinki, the National Museum in Stockholm and the Aichi and Shigaraki ceramic museums in Japan. Autio has left an indelible mark on the world with his art. He studied at Washington State University (MFA) and became a professor of ceramics and sculpture at the University of Montana in Missoula (1957). While his early pots reflected abstract expressionism, he is best known for his later figurative work. On anthropomorphic clay forms, he superimposed improvisational drawings of women, landscapes and animals to add pictorial qualities to his vessels. He and Peter Voulkos were the first resident artists at The Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana.

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Artist: Rudy Autio
Lady with Snake Horse
By Rudy Autio
Located in Missouri, MO
Lady with Snake Horse, 1981 By Rudy Autio (1926-2007) Unframed: 29" x 22.5" Framed: 35.75" x 29.25" Signed and Dated Bottom Right Rudy Autio is a ceramist who was born in Butte, Montana, in 1926, and has lived in his native state throughout most of his career. He headed the ceramics department at the University of Montana for twenty-eight years and is now retired as Professor Emeritus of the School of Fine Arts. Prior to his appointment at the University of Montana, Autio was a founding resident artist at the Archie Bray Ceramics Foundation in Helena, Montana. Autio received a Tiffany Award...
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20th Century Abstract Rudy Autio Art

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Watercolor

Two Horses with Female Nude
By Rudy Autio
Located in Missouri, MO
Two Horses with Female Nude, 1981 By Rudy Autio (1926-2007) Without Frame: 25" x 39" With Frame: 33.25" x 47.25" Signed and Dated Bottom Right Rudy Autio is a ceramist who was born in Butte, Montana, in 1926, and has lived in his native state throughout most of his career. He headed the ceramics department at the University of Montana for twenty-eight years and is now retired as Professor Emeritus of the School of Fine Arts. Prior to his appointment at the University of Montana, Autio was a founding resident artist at the Archie Bray Ceramics Foundation in Helena, Montana. Autio received a Tiffany Award...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Rudy Autio Art

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Gouache, Watercolor

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Voyager
Voyager
H 30 in W 17.5 in D 21 in
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stoneware, glaze
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Icarus
H 35 in W 30 in D 20 in
Untitled flower vase by Rudy Autio
By Rudy Autio
Located in Morton Grove, IL
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Reno Beach
By Rudy Autio
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Ceramic sculpture historic and vintage Stoneware and glaze One of the greatest American sculptors. Peter Voulkos and Jun Kaneko, era. Rudy Autio (1926- 2007) is considered o...
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Untitled
By Rudy Autio
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Signed by artist
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1960s Modern Rudy Autio Art

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Stoneware

untitled
By Rudy Autio
Located in Morton Grove, IL
clay, slips, and glaze *from the private collection of Canadian artist David Askevold (1940 – 2008) Contemporary of Peter Voulkos, Frances Senska, Ke...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Rudy Autio Art

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Ceramic

Skull vessel
By Rudy Autio
Located in Morton Grove, IL
12" tall signed Contemporary of Rudy Autio, Frances Senska, Ken Price, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, James Brooks, and Jackson Pollock.
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Rudy Autio Art

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Stoneware

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