Jeffrey Spahn Gallery is proud to present this fine example of a large Toshiko Takaezu "Moon" Toshiko Takaezu is currently featured in a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale alongside her contemporary Ruth Asawa. Upon her 100th birthday it was announced that Takaezu will be the subject of a one-artist retrospective in 2023, sponsored by the Isamu Noguchi Foundation. the traveling exhibition will be accompanied by a major new scholarly book. Takaezu completed very few of these large ceramic moons, this particular example includes all of her iconic vocabulary; large circular brushstrokes and layers of poured drizzled glaze, such as the glaze she invented that people now call Toshiko White. This large moon is entitled "Dry Wind" due to the obvious expressive diagonal lines 'blown' across the form in various earth-tones, some of the artists personal favorite colors. Takaezu rarely titled her works but when she did it was an indication that she strongly admired the piece. She felt so strongly about this piece in particular that she included it in her 1995 retrospective which travelled to Japan. Most of her large pieces are already in museums and institutional collections, this is one of the best examples of her Large Moons on the private market. Toshiko Takaezu was a contemporary alongside painters and sculptors of the 20th century such as Georgia O'Keefe, Lenore Tawney, Mark Rothko, Cy Twomley, Joan Mitchell, Harry Bertoia, George Nakashima, Peter Voulkos, Ruth Duckworth, Jack Lenore Larsen, Jun Kaneko, and Kay Sekimachi.