Peter Voulkos Signed Large Heavy Modern Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl

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Peter Voulkos Signed Large Heavy Modern Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl

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A fantastic, freeform, heavy chawan teabowl by American master potter Peter Voulkos. Very unique and scarce work with rare use of color. One of our personal favorites. Signed on base and dated (1990) by Voulkos. Voulkos is widely considered to be the most important and impactful ceramists of the modern era. He won the Rodin Museum Prize at the first Paris Biennale in 1959 and was the winner of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1984. Voulkos received the College Art Association’s Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1997. He was made an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 2001. He also received six honorary doctorate degrees as well as three National Endowment for the Arts awards. His work can be found in many prominent collections and museums including: Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Nagoya, Japan Albany Mall, Albany, New York American Museum of Ceramic Arts, Pomona, California The Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford, California Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada The Art Gallery, Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Banff Centre, School of Fine Arts, Alberta, Canada Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Philadephia Cincinnati Art Museum, Cinncinati, Ohio City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco, California City of Fresno, Fresno, California City of Highland Park, Illinois Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, State Fair Community College, Sedalia, Missouri David & Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Den Permanente, Copenhagen, Denmark Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, University of California, Los Angeles, California Fredrick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Het Kruithuis, Museum of Contemporary Art‘s Hertogenbosch, Netherlands High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Museum of American Art at the Renwick Gallery of Contemporary Crafts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii Ichon World Ceramic Center, Ichon, Kyonggi Province, Korea Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana International Museum of Ceramic Art, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach California Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, Minnesota Montana State University School of Art Permanent Collection, Bozeman, Montana Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands Museum of Arts and Design (formerly the American Craft Museum), New York Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas National Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Japan Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Utah State University, Logan, Utah Nordenfjield Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim, Norway Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland California Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadephia, Pennsylvania Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Federal Building and United States Courthouse, Honolulu, Hawaii San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California Scripps College, Claremont, California Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery & Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska Southern Illinois University Art Museum, Carbondale, Illinois St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands Tokyo Folk Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana Dimensions: 4" high, 6.5" diameter.

Creator:
Peter Voulkos (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 4 in (10.16 cm)Diameter: 6.5 in (16.51 cm)
Style:
Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Earthenware,Hand-Crafted
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
1990-1999
Date of Manufacture:
1990
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. In very good vintage condition with one chip to the inner rim of underside/ base (clearly in the making - which was natural with Voulkos' works - as it is glazed over. Please see photos) else impeccable. A stunning, unique and rare work overall.
Seller Location:
Studio City, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2254316413331

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Peter Voulkos

Peter Voulkos was a West Coast sculptor known for incorporating an array of modernist influences into his ceramics practice. Widely acknowledged as the progenitor of a profound transformation in American ceramics known variously as American Clay Revolution or the California Clay Movement, Voulkos is considered the seminal figure in the development of contemporary ceramic art in America.

As both a working artist and educator, Voulkos was instrumental in unleashing a transformative wave of creativity in clay. As the originating force behind a novel, uniquely American movement in ceramics, Voulkos’ legacy and present-day influence on the medium cannot be overstated.

Voulkos studied painting and printmaking under the GI Bill at Montana State College after serving as an airplane gunner in the US Army in World War II. He soon discovered a passion for sculpture, graduating with an MFA in 1952. An influential educator with a lengthy career at various institutions, he established the ceramics department at the Los Angeles County Art Institute (now the Otis College of Art and Design), where he taught from 1954–59, and at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1959 until his retirement in 1985. He also taught at Black Mountain College and the Archie Bray Foundation.

Voulkos toured universities throughout the United States conducting live ceramic workshops to audiences until his death. Notable students of his include Paul Soldner, John Mason, Ken Price, Billy Al Bengston, Ron Nagle, Stephen de Staebler and James Melchert. Voulkos was the recipient of many awards throughout his career, including the Gold Medal at the International Exposition of Ceramics (1995, Cannes, France); the Rodin Museum Prize at the First Paris Biennale (1955, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France); a Guggenheim Fellowship (1984); a Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement (1997, College Art Association); and honorary doctorates from four American art schools.

Artworks by Voulkos have been exhibited at major institutions around the world, including at the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY); the Museum of Art and Design (New York, NY); the Smithsonian Museum of American Art (Washington, D.C.); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA); the San Francisco Museum of Art (San Francisco, CA); the Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA); the American Craft Museum (New York, NY) and the National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo, Japan).

Voulkos has artworks in in the permanent collections of many major international institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY); the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA); the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA); the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA); and many more.

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