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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.

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.
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.