Feather River

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Artist Peter Voulkos (American, 1924– 2002)

Title Feather River

Date 1960

Medium Stoneware, glaze, and and epoxy paint

Dimensions Overall: 35 x 14 x 8 in. (88.9 x 35.6 x 20.3 cm)

Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 82.17

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Peter Voulkos was an influential and innovative ceramic artist and sculptor, applying the aesthetics and spontaneity of Abstract Expressionist painting to three-dimensional work. Around 1957, Voulkos started experimenting with clay sculpture, which he fired in a seven-foot tall walk-in kiln. By blurring the distinctions between pottery and sculpture, Voulkos helped revitalize the craft of ceramics in the post-World War II era. Feather River, whose form suggests a figure with outstretched arms, is also—like the paintings by Pederson and Dubuffet—representative of postwar artists’ interest in melding abstraction and representation.

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"Feather River | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=82.17