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Viola Frey
Crocker Series II1979

Not on view
Circular clay disc with rough sandy surface, featuring a central white panel with a black silhouetted figure in a hat, flanked by two cobalt blue handprints, with orange and blue paint speckling the tan ground

Viola Frey, Crocker Series II, 1979, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Viola Frey
Title
Crocker Series II
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1979
Medium
Earthenware, glaze
Dimensions
Height: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); Diameter: 21 in. (53.3 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits
Accession Number
M.87.1.46
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Lauria, Jo; Color and Fire - Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2000.
  • 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.
Copyright
Art © Artists' Legacy Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York