LACMA

ShopMembershipMyLACMATickets
LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
info@lacma.org
(323) 857-6000
Sign up to receive emails
Subscribe
© Museum Associates 2026
  • About LACMA
  • Jobs
  • Host An Event
  • Unframed
  • Press
  • FAQs
  • Log in to MyLACMA
  • Privacy Policy
© Museum Associates 2026
Collections

Peter Voulkos
5000 Feet1958

Not on view
No image
Artist or Maker
Peter Voulkos
United States, Montana, Bozeman, active United States, California, Berkeley, Oakland, and Los Angeles, 1924-2002
Title
5000 Feet
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1958
Medium
Stoneware with slip, gas fired
Dimensions
45 1/2 x 21 x 13 in. (115.57 x 53.34 x 33.02 cm)
Credit Line
Junior Art Council Fund
Accession Number
M.59.16
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography

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

  • 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.
  • Voulkos: the Breakthrough Years. London: Black Dog Publishing; New York: Museum of Arts and Design, 2016.
  • Sorkin, Jenni. Art in California. London; New York: Thames & Hudson, 2021.
Selected Exhibition History
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". July 6, 2013 - September 29, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014
Copyright
© Estate of Peter Voulkos

Related Exhibitions