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Peter Voulkos

Peter Voulkos. The Grand-Daddy of All Modern Ceramic Arts. Peter Voulkos by Jim Leedy

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Peter Voulkos

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  1. Peter Voulkos The Grand-Daddy of All Modern Ceramic Arts

  2. Peter Voulkosby Jim Leedy • "He is the sum result of everything in his life and the world around him - at one moment he flashes forward to break new ground, at another he moves backward to reach for past experiences and drag them into the future. Yet he still has the sincerity and directness of a child while searching for cosmic answers." • Jim Leedy gives an honest but personal account of the life of Peter Voulkos, based on a relationship and friendship spanning nearly half a century. Includes an interview and many photographs.

  3. Peter Voulkos in Glendale Boulevard studio, ca. 1959-60, Los Angeles, CaliforniaPhoto by Henry T. Takemoto

  4. Education 1952     Master of Fine Arts, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland 1951     Bachelor of Science in Applied Art, Montana State College, Bozeman Voulkos' best work is a primeval statement, the product of an internalized primitivism. In his plates, stacks and "ice buckets", he returns to the wild and pagan heart of making art.The stacks radiate an immanent power. They are great phallic presences asserting themselves. Voulkos' work is unapologetically macho, but his is a machismo that is so honest a statement of who the artist is that to hide it or camouflage it or tame it would be an act of criminal dishonesty.

  5. 12 "stacks" by Peter Voulkos as installed at LongHouse, East Hampton, NYon loan from Artworks Gallery The stacks radiate an immanent power. They are great phallic presences asserting themselves. Voulkos' work is unapologetically macho, but his is a machismo that is so honest a statement of who the artist is that to hide it or camouflage it or tame it would be an act of criminal dishonesty.

  6. Title Tall Covered Jar Work Date 1956 Medium stoneware with slip and glaze, gas fired

  7. Title Cross Work Date 1959 Medium stoneware with glaze, gas fired Sizeh: 30.5 x w: 23 x d: 10 in / h: 77.47 x w: 58.42 x d: 25.4 cm Description Collection of American Craft Museum, New York; Gift of the Johnson Wax Company from Objects: USA, 1977; donated to the American Craft Museum by the American Craft Council, 1990

  8. Title Little Big Horn Work Date 1959 Medium stoneware with slip and glaze, gas fired Sizeh: 62 x w: 40 x d: 40 in / h: 157.48 x w: 101.6 x d: 101.6 cm

  9. Title Passing Red Work Date 1959 Medium vinyl paint, sand, and clay on unprimed canvas Sizeh: 72 x w: 96 in / h: 182.88 x w: 243.84 cm

  10. Title Untitled Plate Work Date 1959 Medium stoneware with sand, slip, glaze, and epoxy paint, gas fired Sizeh: 18.5 x w: 18.5 x d: 4 in / h: 46.99 x w: 46.99 x d: 10.16 cm

  11. Title Red River Work Date 1960 Medium stoneware with slip, glaze, and epoxy paint, gas fired Sizeh: 37 x w: 12.5 x d: 14.5 in / h: 93.98 x w: 31.75 x d: 36.83 cm Description Collection of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation

  12. Title Cedar Breaks Work Date 1961 Medium vinyl paint, lacquer, sand, and collage on canvas Sizeh: 71.75 x w: 68.75 in / h: 182.24 x w: 174.62 cm

  13. Title Untitled Plate Work Date 1962 Medium stoneware with glaze, gas fired Sizeh: 31.25 x w: 16.25 in / h: 79.38 x w: 41.28 cm Description Collection of The Oakland Museum; Gift of the Art Guild of The Oakland Museum Association

  14. Title Untitled Plate Work Date 1973 Medium gas-fired stoneware Sizew: 20 x d: 4 in / w: 50.8 x d: 10.16 cm

  15. Title Untitled Plate Work Date 1973 Medium gas-fired stoneware Sizew: 19.5 x d: 3 in / w: 49.5 x d: 7.62 cm

  16. Title Untitled Plate Work Date 1973 Medium gas-fired stoneware Sizeh: 19.25 x w: 19.25 in / h: 48.9 x w: 48.9 cm

  17. Title Untitled Plate Work Date 1973 Medium wood-fired stoneware with porcelain Sizeh: 18.5 x w: 18.5 x d: 3.25 in / h: 46.99 x w: 46.99 x d: 8.26 cm

  18. Title Untitled Plate Work Date 1979 Medium gas-fired stoneware Sizeh: 23 x w: 23 in / h: 58.42 x w: 58.42 cm

  19. Title Untitled Plate Work Date 1979 Medium ceramic with porcelain Sizeh: 22 x w: 22 in / h: 55.88 x w: 55.88 cm

  20. Title Untitled Plate Work Date 1979 Medium ceramic Sizeh: 22.5 x w: 22.5 in / h: 57.15 x w: 57.15 cm

  21. Title Untitled Plate Work Date 1980 Medium wood-fired stoneware with porcelain Sizeh: 21 x w: 21 x d: 5 in / h: 53.34 x w: 53.34 x d: 12.7 cm

  22. Title Untitled Plate Work Date 1980 Medium wood-fired stoneware Sizew: 20.75 x d: 4 in / w: 52.7 x d: 10.16 cm

  23. Title Untitled Plate Work Date 1980 Medium stoneware with porcelain Sizeh: 20 x w: 22.75 x d: 6 in / h: 50.8 x w: 57.78 x d: 15.24 cm

  24. Title Untitled Plate Work Date 1980 Medium stoneware, wood fired Sizeh: 1.25 x w: 23 in / h: 3.18 x w: 58.42 cm Description Collection of High Museum of Art, Atlanta

  25. Title 'A' Plate Work Date 1981 Medium stoneware, wood fired Sizeh: 4.5 x w: 21 in / h: 11.43 x w: 53.34 cm

  26. Title Untitled Plate Work Date 1981 Medium stoneware and porcelain, wood fired Sizeh: 4.5 x w: 21 in / h: 11.43 x w: 53.34 cm

  27. Title Untitled Stack Work Date 1977 Medium gas-fired stoneware Sizeh: 34.25 x w: 13 in / h: 87 x w: 33.02 cm

  28. Title Two Brick Stack Work Date 1981 Medium stoneware, wood fired Sizeh: 39.5 x w: 17 in / h: 100.33 x w: 43.18 cm

  29. Title Untitled Stack Work Date 1981 Medium stoneware, wood fired Sizeh: 35.12 x w: 16.12 in / h: 89.2 x w: 40.94 cm

  30. Title Zoroaster Work Date 1981 Medium stoneware, wood fired Sizeh: 38 x w: 19 in / h: 96.52 x w: 48.26 cm Description Collection of Milwaukee Art Museum; Gift of Karen Johnson Boyd

  31. Title Nauga Work Date 1982 Medium stoneware, wood fired Sizeh: 42 x w: 26 in / h: 106.68 x w: 66.04 cm

  32. Title Three X's Work Date 1982 Medium stoneware, wood fired Sizeh: 42 x w: 28 in / h: 106.68 x w: 71.12 cm

  33. Title Pyramid of the Sacrifice Work Date 1984 Medium paper collage Sizeh: 44 x w: 30.12 in / h: 111.76 x w: 76.5 cm

  34. Title King's Chamber Work Date 1985 Medium paper collage with pushpins Sizeh: 45 x w: 30.25 in / h: 114.3 x w: 76.84 cm

  35. Title Pharaoh's Bandsaw Work Date 1985 Medium paper collage with pushpins Sizeh: 46 x w: 30 in / h: 116.84 x w: 76.2 cm

  36. Title Pyramid of the Amphora Work Date 1985 Medium paper collage with pushpins Sizeh: 52 x w: 37 in / h: 132.08 x w: 93.98 cm

  37. Title Untitled Work Date 1988 Medium monotype Sizeh: 50.12 x w: 35 in / h: 127.3 x w: 88.9 cm

  38. Title Untitled Ice Bucket Work Date 1986 Medium stoneware, wood fired Sizeh: 14.5 x w: 19 in / h: 36.83 x w: 48.26 cm

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