Untitled Stack Pot

1964

Peter Voulkos American, 1924 - 2002

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Untitled Stack Pot: 1 of Collection Gallery

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About the Artwork

Beginning in 1954 Voulkos created thousands of pots, constantly breaking out of the boundaries of what had been considered acceptable form in Western ceramics. This sculptural, nonfunctional piece is the earliest example of the distinctive "stack pot" form that Voulkos was to use extensively in the mid 1970s. It is one of the most important, expressionistic, and aggressive examples of Voulkos's muscular clay handling. The clay is torn, cut, drawn into, and assembled from thrown forms, with added patches of glaze painting.

Title Untitled Stack Pot

Artwork Date 1964

Artist Peter Voulkos

Life Dates 1924 - 2002

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Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Partially glazed stoneware

Dimensions Overall: 29 7/8 × 11 1/8 inches (75.9 × 28.3 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department Contemporary Art after 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Memorials Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1985.28

Markings

Signed Signed along front bottom edge: Voulkos

Inscriptions Dated: 64

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the artist

Garth Clark Gallery (New York, New York, USA)

1985-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Taragin, Davira. "From Vienna to the Studio Craft Movement." Apollo 124, no. 298 (December 1986): 81-82 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Peter Voulkos, Untitled Stack Pot, 1964, partially glazed stoneware. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Memorials Fund, 1985.28.