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Peter Voulkos

(American, 1924–2002)

Peter Voulkos

Walking Man, 1990

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Peter Voulkos

Abstract V: Flyface, 1979

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Peter Voulkos

Abstract VI: Checks in the Mail, 1979

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Peter Voulkos

Abstract VII: Give Us a Break, 1979

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Peter Voulkos

Abstract VIII: I Got the Cobalt Blues, 1979

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Peter Voulkos

Untitled (Cup), 1961

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Peter Voulkos

Untitled (Cup), 1961

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Peter Voulkos

Key West S15, 2000

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Peter Voulkos

Abstract II: Ironhead, 1979

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Biography

Timeline

1924: Born: Bozeman, MT
1950: United States Potters Association Prize, 15th National Ceramic Exhibition, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse, NY
1951: B.S. in Applied Art, Montana State College, Bozeman, MT
1952: M.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1953: Abraham & Straus General Award
1955: Gold Medal, International Ceramic Exhibition, Cannes, France
1959: Silver Medal, International Ceramic Exhibit, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ostend, Belgium
: Rodin Museum Prize in Sculpture, 1st Paris Biennial, Paris, France
1963: Ford Foundation Purchase Award
1971: Fellowship Grant: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY
1984: Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY
1986: Gold Medal, American Crafts Council, New York, NY
1992: Louise Nevelson Award in Art, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1997: Masters of the Medium Award, James Renwick Alliance
: Distinguished Artists Award, Lifetime Achievement, College Art Association
: Ceramic Lifetime Achievement of the Year Award, Friends of Contemporary Ceramics
: NCECA Award, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
1998: Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2000: Died: Bowling Green, OH

Exhibitions

2001: Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA(solo)
Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA (solo)
2000: Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Art Kansas City, MO (solo)
Gallerymateria, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO (solo)
Living With Form: The Horn Collection of Contemporary Craft, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Cross-Currents in Modern Art: A Tribute to Peter Selz, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, NY
1999: Frank Lloyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Mussi Artworks Foundry & Gallery, Berkeley, CA (solo)
History and Highlights: The Art Gallery's Collection, The Art Gallery, Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
1998: Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Art From Around the Bay: Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Anderson Ranch Artists, Evelyn Siegel Gallery, Forth Worth, TX
NCECA 198 Honors & Fellows Exhibition, Fort Worth Modern Art Museum, Forth Worth, TX
1997: Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (solo)
Abstract Expressionist Ceramics: Myth and Reality Revisited 1954-1966, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
Designed for Delight: Alternative Aspects of Twentieth Century Decorative Arts, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
1996: Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan (solo)
Collection Highlights: 1945 to the Present, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Generations: The Lineage of Influence in Bay Area Art, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1995: Retrospective, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Retrospective, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (solo)
Made in America: Ten Centuries of American Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Andover Alumni Collectors, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1994: Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Kunstrernes Hus, Saltholmsgade, Denmark
Museum of Ceramics, The Grimmerhus, Denmark
The Archie Bray Foundation: A Ceramic Tradition, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT
California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
1993: Braunstein/Quay Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
Kunst Industri Museet, Oslo, Norway
Lillehammer Bys Malerisamling, Lillehammer Bys Malerisamling, Lillehammer, Norway
The Legacy of the Archie Bray Foundation, 1951-1993, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Visions II, Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA
Essentials, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Clay 1993, A National Survey, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Vessels: Constructed/De-Constructed, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
Hordaland Artists Center, Hordaland Artists Center, Bergen, Norway
RAM Gallery, RAM Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Nordenfeljeldske Applied Art Museum, Nordenfeljeldske Applied Art Museum, Ironheim, Norway
1992: Louis Newman Galleries, Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
Academy-Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1991: Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Twining Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Fires; Contemporary American Ceramics 1940-1990, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Bay Area Sculptors of the 1960's: Then and Now, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990: Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY(solo)
Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1989: Surreal Ceramics, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
30 Ceramic Sculptors, Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
3 Sculptors: New Work, Dorothy Dehner, Peter Voulkos, Claire Zeisler, Twining Gallery, New York, NY
1988: Twining Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Thomas Segal Gallery Boston, MA (solo)
Peter Seltz Selects, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Counter Visions: Pioneers in Bay Area Art, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
More Than Clay: The Toki Collection of Ceramics, Richmond Art Center Richmond, CA
1987: Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
Images Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
Contemporary American Ceramics, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea
1986: Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Four Californians: Sculpture by Robert Brady, Tony Costanzo, Richard Shaw and Peter Voulkos, Robert Brady, To, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C.
West Coast Clay, Civic Arts Gallery Walnut Creek, CA
Voulkos & Co: The Vessel Redefined 1950-1960, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1985: Exhibit A Gallery, Evanston, IL (solo)
1984: Exhibit A Gallery, Evanston, IL (solo)
Clay: 1984, Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Osobay Biennial, Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, TX
American Sculpture: Three Decades, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Beauties & Beasts, Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, NY
SF-LA, Gille Mansillon Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Clay Vessels, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1983: Pt. of View, Tokyo, Japan
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Early Works, Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Masters in Clay, American Art, Inc., Atlanta, GA
1982: Two Person Exhibit, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT (solo)
Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Contemporary Clay, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Peter's Valley Anagama, Greenwich House New York, NY
Prime Evidence, Exhibit A Gallery Evanston, IL
1981: Jacksonville Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL (solo)
Exhibit A Gallery, Evanston, IL (solo)
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1980: Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis, MO (solo)
Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS (solo)
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
Sculpture in California, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Matter, Memory, Meaning, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
1979: Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo)
Hills Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
California Clay, Florida State University, Tallahasee, FL
Century of Clay, The Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Olin Art Gallery, Whitman College, Walla-Walla, WA
1978: Retrospecive Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Exhibit A Gallery, Evanston, IL (solo)
First Invitational Ceramic Sculpture Exhibit, North Illinois University Museum, IL
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
1977: Modern Era, Update, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
1976: Yaw Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI (solo)
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI (solo)
1975: Kansas City Institute of Art, Kansas City, MO (solo)
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Sculpture: American Directions 1945-1975, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
Bay Area Sculpture Retrospective I, James Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1974: Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1973: Galarie Allen Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1970: Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1969: International Fair, U.S. Pavillion, International Fair, U.S. Pavillion Osaka, Japan
David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1968: Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1967: Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Sculpture of the 60's, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1966: Abstract Expressionist Ceramics, U.C. Irvine, Irvine, CA
1965: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
White House Festival of the Arts, Washington, D.C.
David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1964: Gallery Unlimited, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Primus-Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1963: David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Stanford Art Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
World's Fair Art Pavilion, Seattle, WA
1961: Primus-Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Bonnier's New York, New York, NY
1960: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
1959: Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
International Ceramics Exhibit, Ostend, Belgiurm
1st Paris Biennale, Museum of Modern Art Paris, France
Nordness Gallery, New York, NY
1958: Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA (solo)
U.S. Pavilion, Brussels World Fair, Brussels, Belgium
1957: Ceramics & Painting, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1956: Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1955: International Exposition of Ceramics, Cannes, France
1954: America House Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1953: Art Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (solo)
1952: America House Gallery, New York, NY
Gumps Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Public Collections

: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
: Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
: National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
: Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
: Museum of Modern Art, Gifu, Japan
: Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
: University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
: Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
: Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
: Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, Asheville, NC
: University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Literature

1996: Peter Voulkos & Jun Kaneko: Shigaraki Project. Nagoya, Japan: Kenji Taki Gallery, 1996 (catalogue)
1995: Slivka, Rose and Karen Tsujimoto. The Art of Peter Voulkos. Kodansha International in collaboration with The Oakland Museum, 1995

Peter Voulkos

(American, 1924–2002)

Peter Voulkos

Peter Voulkos

Peter Voulkos

Peter Voulkos

Peter Voulkos

Peter Voulkos

Peter Voulkos

Peter Voulkos

Peter Voulkos

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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