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Cowan's Auctions is proud to continue the successful partnership of Cowan's+Clark+Del Vecchio in announcing their annual Fall Modern and Contemporary Ceramics auction, October 31, 2012.

 

The sale will offer a group of rare, early pieces by Michele Oka Doner, Akio Takamori, Betty Woodman, Nils de Barck, Peter Voulkos, Robert Turner, and the late Ralph Bacerra

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Consignment Deadline

8/1/2012

Exhibition times

  • Tuesday, October 30, 12:00 - 5:00 PM EST
  • Wednesday, October 31, 8:00 - 10:00 AM

Sale times

Wednesday, October 31, 10:00 AM EST

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Garth Clark
Garth Clark is the author of over 50 books and 250 essays on 20th century and contemporary ceramics. He has received numerous honors for his work including being made a Fellow the Royal College of Art, London and honorary doctorates from Staffordshire University in Britain and the Kansas City Art Institute among others. In 2005 he was the recipient of the College Art Association's Mather Award for distinguished art journalism. In 1981, together with Mark Del Vecchio he founded the Garth Clark Gallery in Los Angeles and then New York, and Kansas City. In 2007 the gallery was closed and a new entity Clark+DelVecchio, private dealers, was formed in Santa Fe, NM.

Mark Del Vecchio
Mark Del Vecchio is the author of the highly-acclaimed "Post Modern Ceramics". He has received the Visionaries award from the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, a lifetime achievement award from the Friends of Contemporary Ceramics and an honorary doctorate from the Kansas City Art Institute. He has directed the Garth Clark Gallery since 1981 overseeing the presentation of more than six hundred exhibitions during the life of the gallery.  Together with Dawn Bennett and Garth Clark he organized the massive Ceramic Millennium Conference in Amsterdam in 1999 that attracted 56 national delegations and 3,500 attendees. He is now director of Clark+DelVecchio in Santa Fe, NM.

 

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