5000 Feet

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5000 Feet

United States, 1958
Sculpture
Stoneware with slip, gas fired
45 1/2 x 21 x 13 in. (115.57 x 53.34 x 33.02 cm)
Junior Art Council Fund (M.59.16)
Modern Art
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Voulkos: the Breakthrough Years. London: Black Dog Publishing; New York: Museum of Arts and Design, 2016.

  • Tuchman, Maurice. Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981.

    View this publication in LACMA's Reading Room

  • Voulkos: the Breakthrough Years. London: Black Dog Publishing; New York: Museum of Arts and Design, 2016.

  • Tuchman, Maurice. Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981.

    View this publication in LACMA's Reading Room

  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. Los Angeles: Los  Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011.
  • MacNaughton, Mary Davis, ed. Clay's Tectonic Shift, 1956-1968: John Mason, Ken Price, Peter Voulkos. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum; Claremont, CA: Scripps College, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, 2012.
  • Barron, Stephanie and Lauren Bergman.  Ken Price Sculpture: a Retrospective. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico, 2012.
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965.  Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013. 
  • Sorkin, Jenni. Art in California. London; New York: Thames & Hudson, 2021.
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Exhibition history

  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way" Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way" Tokyo, Japan, The National Art Center, Tokyo, March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way" Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way" Tokyo, Japan, The National Art Center, Tokyo, March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way" Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland Art Gallery, July 6, 2013 - September 29, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way" South Brisbane, Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way" Salem, MA, Peabody Essex Museum, March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014
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