John Mason
Spear Form1963

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Artist or Maker: John Mason
United States, Nebraska, 1927–2019, active Los Angeles
Title: Spear Form
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1963
Medium: Stoneware
Dimensions: 59 1/2 x 24 x 10 in. (151.13 x 60.96 x 25.4 cm)
Credit Line: Smits Ceramics Purchase Fund
Accession Number: AC1997.38.1
Classification: Sculpture
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.
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.
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.
Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013.
Lynn, Martha Drexler. American Studio Ceramics: Innovation and Identity, 1940 to 1979. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.
Adamson, Glenn, and Jen Padgett. Crafting America: Artists and Objects, 1940 to Today. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2021.
Copyright: © John Mason

Not on view

Artist or Maker: John Mason
United States, Nebraska, 1927–2019, active Los Angeles
Title: Spear Form
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1963
Medium: Stoneware
Dimensions: 59 1/2 x 24 x 10 in. (151.13 x 60.96 x 25.4 cm)
Credit Line: Smits Ceramics Purchase Fund
Accession Number: AC1997.38.1
Classification: Sculpture
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.
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.
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.
Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013.
Lynn, Martha Drexler. American Studio Ceramics: Innovation and Identity, 1940 to 1979. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.
Adamson, Glenn, and Jen Padgett. Crafting America: Artists and Objects, 1940 to Today. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2021.