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Kenneth Price
Vase1956

Not on view
Stoneware vessel with barrel-shaped body, amber and olive-green drip glaze, and incised figural drawings of abstracted seated and standing human forms

Kenneth Price, Vase, 1956, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Kenneth Price
United States, 1935-2012
Title
Vase
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1956
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
7 1/4 x 6 x 5 in. (18.42 x 15.24 x 12.7 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits
Accession Number
M.87.1.125
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Drexler Lynn, Martha. Clay Today: Contemporary Ceramists and their Work: a catalogue of the Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990.
  • Lynn, Martha Drexler. American Studio Ceramics: Innovation and Identity, 1940 to 1979. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.
Copyright
© Estate of Ken Price

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