USA 41, 1960

East Building, Upper Level — Gallery 407-B

Medium

glazed stoneware and epoxy paint

Dimensions

overall: 86.36 × 29.85 × 26.67 cm (34 × 11 3/4 × 10 1/2 in.)
gross weight: 17.69 kg (39 lb.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Wayne Parrish)

Accession Number

2015.19.3905

Artists / Makers

Peter Voulkos (artist) American, 1924 - 2002

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Inscription

underside of bottom: U.S.-VOULKOS / 41 / USA 41

Provenance

Wayne W. Parrish, Washington;[1] gift 1972 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] When Parrish offered the sculpture to the Corcoran, he wrote: "Some years ago I acquired one of Peter Voulkos' early ceramic pieces on the west coast." Letter of 5 September 1972, to Gene Baro, director of the Corcoran, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Parrish, Wayne

Exhibition History

1978: Peter Voulkos, San Francisco Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Craft, New York; Milwaukee Art Center, 1978-1979.

1982: Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1982.

2006: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006-2007.

2007: Looking for the "There There": California Art from the Collection 1950-2000, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007-2008.

2016: Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years, Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Renwick Gallery, Washington, 2016-2017, no. 22, repro.

Bibliography

1999: Slivka, Rose. "The Dynamics of Destruction." Art in America (January 1999): 87, unnumbered figure.

2005: Prescott, Theodore L., ed. A Broken Beauty. Grand Rapids and Cambridge, England, 2005: 64 fig. 6.