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Ceramic Drawing #12
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Ceramic Drawing #12

Date1977
Maker Peter Voulkos American, 1924-2002
Label TextTitling a ceramic work “drawing,” the artist breaks down the distinctions between functional crafts and fine art objects in the conventional mediums of painting and sculpture.
Object number78.66
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Clay Revisions: Plate, Cup, Vase, Nov. 12, 1987 - Jan. 10, 1988 (Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Feb. 9 - Apr. 5, 1988; Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Renwick Gallery, Apr. 2 - Sept. 5, 1988; Potsdam, New York, Gibson Gallery, State University of New York, Nov. 12, 1988 - Jan. 7, 1989; Scottsdale, Arizona, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Feb. 4 - Apr. 1, 1989; Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville Art Museum, Apr. 22 - June 17, 1989; Billings, Montana, Yellowstone Art Center, Aug. 5 - Sept. 30, 1989). Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Collection Highlights: 1945 To The Present, Sept. 12, 1996 - June 1, 1997. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Exceptionally Ordinary: Mingei 1920–2020, Dec. 14, 2019 - Sept. 6, 2021.
Credit LineMargaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund
Dimensions4 in. (10.16 cm) Diam.: 24 in.
MediumStoneware with glaze
Peter Voulkos
ca. 1978
Object number: 2024.8
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Peter Voulkos
early 1950s
Object number: 2013.4.3
Peter Shire
1982
Object number: 86.138
Ceramic sherd
1279-1368
Object number: SC81.21.1
Ceramic sherd
1279-1368
Object number: SC81.21.2
Ceramic sherd
1279-1368
Object number: SC81.21.3
Ceramic sherd
1279-1368
Object number: SC81.21.4
Photo: Paul Macapia
Robert Arneson
1964
Object number: 82.82
Photo: Paul Macapia
Robert Sperry
1981
Object number: 82.123
Toshiko Takaezu
late 1950s
Object number: 2008.46