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25
Apr
2025
TOSHIKO TAKAEZU

TOSHIKO TAKAEZU

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Untitled (026)

Toshiko Takaezu

This piece is available from a private collection. The artwork was made in 2002 by Toshiko Takaezu.  

“Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011) was one of the twentieth century’s greatest abstract artists. Gifted with prodigious drive and vision, she combined inspirations from her own cultural background with currents from contemporary painting and sculpture, arriving at a unique expressionist idiom. ”

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“Takaezu was a profoundly influential teacher and mentor, who trained generations of younger artists at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Princeton University and other institutions. Her legacy lives on in these students and apprentices, and above all in her own work, which both exemplifies and transcends the ideals of modernist ceramic art.”

— GLENN ADAMSON
Independent Scholar and Curator

  • Date of Production : 2002
  • Maker ‏ : ‎ Toshiko Takaezu
  • Material ‏ : ‎ porcelain, glaze
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 6.5 x 6.5 inches
  • Provenance: Made in the Artists’ Studio (Toshiko Takaezu) (2002) to a private collection.

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Toshiko Takaezu, "Untitled (642)", 1998, porcelain, ~ 6 x 7". Schonfeld Collection.
Toshiko Takaezu, "Untitled (642)", 1998, porcelain, ~ 6 x 7". Schonfeld Collection.
Toshiko Takaezu, "Untitled (642)", 1998, porcelain, ~ 6 x 7". Schonfeld Collection.

Untitled (642)

Toshiko Takaezu

  • Date of Production : 1998
  • Maker ‏ : ‎ Toshiko Takaezu
  • Material ‏ : ‎ porcelain
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 7 inches
  • Provenance: Made in the Artist’s Studio (Toshiko Takaezu) (1998) to Perimeter Gallery to The Victoria Schonfeld Collection (2000).

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Toshiko Takaezu, "Form White Green", 1999, porcelain, 5.5 x 4.5". Schonfeld Collection.

Form White Green

Toshiko Takaezu

  • Date of Production : 1999
  • Maker ‏ : ‎ Toshiko Takaezu
  • Material ‏ : ‎ porcelain
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 4.5 inches
  • Provenance: Made in the Artist’s Studio (Toshiko Takaezu) (1999) to Perimeter Gallery to The Victoria Schonfeld Collection (2000).

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Toshiko Takaezu, "Untitled (648)", 1998, porcelain, ~6.5 x 4". Schonfeld Collection.
Toshiko Takaezu, "Untitled (648)", 1998, porcelain, ~6.5 x 4". Schonfeld Collection.
Toshiko Takaezu, "Untitled (648)", 1998, porcelain, ~6.5 x 4". Schonfeld Collection.

Untitled (648)

Toshiko Takaezu

  • Date of Production : 1998
  • Maker ‏ : ‎ Toshiko Takaezu
  • Material ‏ : ‎ porcelain
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 4 inches
  • Provenance: Made in the Artist’s Studio (Toshiko Takaezu) (1998) to Perimeter Gallery to The Victoria Schonfeld Collection (2000).

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24
Apr
2025
KATHY BUTTERLY

KATHY BUTTERLY

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Soggy Stick

Kathy Butterly

  • Date of Production : 2001
  • Maker ‏ : ‎ Kathy Butterly
  • Material ‏ : ‎ porcelain, earthenware, glaze
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 3.25 x 2.75 inches
  • Provenance: Made in the Artists’ Studio (Kathy Butterly) (2007) Franklin Parrasch Gallery to The Victoria Schonfeld Collection (2001).

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Kathy Butterly, "More Plenty", 2007, porcelain, earthenware, glaze, 7.5 x 7.5 x 7.75". The Victoria Schonfeld Collection
Kathy Butterly, "More Plenty", 2007, porcelain, earthenware, glaze, 7.5 x 7.5 x 7.75". The Victoria Schonfeld Collection

More Plenty

Kathy Butterly

  • Date of Production : 2007
  • Maker ‏ : ‎ Kathy Butterly
  • Material ‏ : ‎ porcelain, earthenware, glaze
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 7.5 x 7.75 inches
  • Provenance: Made in the Artists’ Studio (Kathy Butterly) (2007) to Tibor de Nagy Gallery to The Victoria Schonfeld Collection (2014)

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Kathy Butterly, "Fountain of Youth", 2000, clay, glaze, 6.75 x 3 x 2".
Kathy Butterly, "Fountain of Youth", 2000, clay, glaze, 6.75 x 3 x 2".
Kathy Butterly, "Fountain of Youth", 2000, clay, glaze, 6.75 x 3 x 2".

Fountain of Youth

Kathy Butterly

  • Date of Production : 2000
  • Maker ‏ : ‎ Kathy Butterly
  • Material ‏ : ‎ clay, glaze
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎6.75 x 3 x 2 inches
  • Provenance: Made in the Artists’ Studio (Kathy Butterly) (2000). Available from a Private Collection

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“Kathy Butterly has created distinct, evocative sculptures for more than two decades, contributing to and expanding the tradition of studio ceramics.  Through her practice, Butterly engages with concepts ranging from materiality and line to the history of the vessel.  She uses traditional ceramic forms as her starting point, referring to these historical templates as her “canvas”; however, Butterly contorts and misshapes these forms in ways that veer toward the iconoclastic. She then adds layer upon layer of glaze – sometimes to the point of creating additional volume – and fires the works repeatedly.  The colors and textures Butterly chooses and their relationship with each other are simultaneously seductive and jarring. Her strange forms and surprising palette decisions often generate an uncanny awareness in the viewer and produce a visceral impact.”

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24
Apr
2025
ANNE KRAUS

ANNE KRAUS

Works by Anne Kraus are available for sale, gift, or acquisition from Private Collections. For pricing and availability, please use the inquire form.

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Teapot

Front (4 figures):
In a large patterned garden 
I find hundreds of coins in the dirt. 
And so I begin 
to know the earth. 

Back (2 figures):
I travel far across the land 
Always a path appears
The ground has come to know my step
And the Earth’s songs
I’ve learned to hear.
~Diana~ of the 7th district 2025

Top:
The world I knew
I left behind
Like dry leaves in a wind
And with no sustenance in hand
…(lines of poem lost)

The Book and Other Stories Bread Basket (Shining Leaf)

Inner Basket text (3 figures):
I awake from 
a dream in which 
I work in a steel mill 
in Northern Germany 
in the 1880’s

Inner basket (volleyball players):
This entity asks you 
what you are 
waiting for

Inner bottom (fire): 
You give me a book 
with pictures of my past lives 
but when I try to read it, a fire starts

Side (woods & rifle):
In this dream you are 
a sentry and for a moment 
you wonder where we buried the love that brought us 
all to this planet 
to begin with. 

Side (deer):
The deer spoke 
of another world where 
animals and humans 
are friends. 
But her voice faded 
and I wondered 
if I had heard 
just the wind in the trees

ANNE KRAUS

b. 1956, Short Hills, NJ
d. 2003 Boulder, CO

Anne Kraus is best known for painterly narrative scenes on traditional ceramic forms, usually in a white reserve and incorporating text. Kraus began her art career as a painter living in New York City. The European porcelains from Meissen, Sèvres and R.S. Prussia that she saw at the Metropolitan Museum captured her imagination and influenced her decision to work in clay.

Kraus’ early work was done at her Shining Leaf Pottery in New Jersey. The pieces are built from slip-cast stoneware elements that are combined and recombined in many different ways. Kraus mastered the use of under glaze decoration. The emotional images in her narratives may appear deceptively calm, often drawn from her dream diaries, they frequently present her deeply personal views on political, social and cultural issues. In addition to images, her work typically includes carefully drawn text relating to the images. Toward the end of her career she began making tile paintings.

21
Feb
2025

RUDY AUTIO

Ferrin Contemporary is pleased to present select works for sale from private collections.
These collections offer an opportunity to acquire important works from surveys of studio sculpture and decorative art.

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SMILING LADY, 1979

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21
Feb
2025
ROBERT ARNESON

ROBERT ARNESON

Ferrin Contemporary is pleased to present select works for sale from private collections.
These collections offer an opportunity to acquire important works from surveys of studio sculpture and decorative art.

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A QUESTION OF MEASURE OR CHECKERED PLATE OR VITRUVIAN MAN, 1978

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01
Nov
2021
RUDOLF STAFFEL

RUDOLF STAFFEL

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ARTWORK

“Untitled Vessel”
1975
porcelain
7.25 x 6.25″

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27
Oct
2020
ARTIST FOCUS | BEATRICE WOOD

ARTIST FOCUS | BEATRICE WOOD

ARTWORKS

BEATRICE WOOD

Ferrin Contemporary is pleased to present an Artist Focus and offer select works for sale from private collections.  These collections offer an opportunity to acquire important works from surveys of studio sculpture and decorative art.

Luster Vessels, Sculptures & Drawings

Beatrice Wood: A Centennial Tribute American Craft Museum Portrait
Beatrice Wood, “Chalice”, 1990, raku-fired glazed earthenware, 8 x 7.5 x 7.5″

Lava Glaze Bowl | Luster Plate | Luster Vessel

Beatrice Wood, “Lava Glaze Bowl”, c. late 1950s to early 1960s, earthenware, lava glaze, 5 x 11.5 x 11.5″.
Beatrice Wood, “Lava Glaze Bowl”, c. late 1950s to early 1960s, earthenware, lava glaze, 5 x 11.5 x 11.5″.
Beatrice Wood, “Lava Glaze Bowl”, c. late 1950s to early 1960s, earthenware, lava glaze, 5 x 11.5 x 11.5″.
Beatrice Wood, “Lava Glaze Bowl” c. 1950-60, 5 x 11.5 x 11.5″.
Beatrice Wood, “Luster Vessel” c. 1970, stoneware or earthenware, 6 x 6.5 x 6.5″.

Drawings & Paintings

Beatrice Wood, “Untitled”, c. 1978, watercolor, graphite on paper (framed), 10 x 8″.
Beatrice Wood, “Men are not to be looked at”, 1978, colored pencil, pencil on paper, 10.625 x 13.625″.

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BEATRICE WOOD

Spanning the time period from the late 1950s to mid 1990s, this preliminary selection includes works by acclaimed artist Beatrice Wood, providing collectors and institutions the opportunity to add works with detailed provenance by the recognized masters of their mediums.

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ABOUT | BEATO

Beatrice Wood (1893–1998) lived a long artistic life and is associated with the Avant Garde Dada movement. She began working in ceramics in the 1930s mastering and producing lusterware as well as narrative figures and wall tiles, loosely formed and humorous in subject matter.

While on a trip to Holland, Beatrice Wood purchased a set of dessert plates with a gorgeous luster and wanted to find a teapot to match. Unable to find one, she decided to simply maker her own and enrolled in a ceramics course. Despite discovering that making a teapot was not so easy, she was determined to develop her throwing skills while also studying glaze chemistry. Wood developed a signature style of glazing: an all-over, in-glaze luster that draws the metallic salts to the surface of the glaze by starving the kiln of oxygen.

“I never meant to become a potter,” Beatrice later offered. “It happened very accidentally… I could sell pottery because when I ran away from home I was without any money. And so I became a potter.”

CV

EDUCATION
Ceramics with Gertrud and Otto Natzler, Los Angeles, 1940
University of Southern California (with Glen Lukens), 1938
Hollywood High School, Adult Education Department, CA
Ceramics Class, 1933
Finch School, New York, 1911
Academie Julien, Paris, 1910

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 EXPOSED: Heads, Busts, and Nudes, Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, MA
1999 Beatrice Wood, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Drawing for Life, Achim Moeller Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Beatrice Wood: A Centennial Tribute, (traveling) American Craft Museum, New York, NY, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL; The Butler Museum, Youngstown, OH
Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Beatrice Wood: Aphrodisia, CSUN Art Galleries, Northridge, CA
Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Kansas City, MO
1992 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Kansas City, MO
1991 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Intimate Appeal, The Figurative Art of Beatrice Wood, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (traveling)
1989 Suzanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1988 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA
1987 SPARC (Social and Public Arts Resource Center), Los Angeles, CA
1986 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Hilberry Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Beatrice Wood: A Legend, Fresno Art Center and Museum, Fresno, CA
1985 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY, and Los Angeles, CA
1984 Beatrice Wood: Retrospective, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA
1983 Beatrice Wood Retrospective, (traveling), Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton and Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Beatrice Wood: A Very Private View, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Beatrice Wood: Ceramics and Drawings, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1973 Beatrice Wood: A Retrospective, Phoenix Art Museum, AZ (traveling)
1964 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1962 Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo
1959 Ceramics: Beatrice Wood, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
1955 Ceramics by Beatrice Wood, American Gallery, Statler Center, Los Angeles, CA (traveling)
1951 B. Wood – Ceramics, Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI
1949 Ceramics of Beatrice Wood, American House, New York, NY

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY
Detroit Institute for the Arts, Detroit, MI
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Museum of Arts and Design, NY
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

AWARDS
1994 Governor’s Awards for the Arts (California)
1993 Recognition as A Role Model by Women in Film
1992 Gold Medal for Highest Achievement in Craftsmanship, American Craft Council
1988 Distinguished Service Award, Arizona State University
1987 Fellow of American Craft Council Women’s Art Caucus, National Award NCECA Award
1986 Women’s Building Award
1984 Living Treasure of California
1983 Symposium Award of the Institute for Ceramic History
1961 Goodwill Ambassador from USA to India – exhibition and lecture tour

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Collection Artists

CERAMICS Robert Arneson, Rudy Autio, Ralph Bacerra, Curtis Benzle, Fong Choo, Rick Dillingham, Ruth Duckworth, Jack Earl, Edward Eberle, Viola Frey, Wayne Higby, Margaret Israel, Jun Kaneko, Alan Lerner, Michael Lucero, Louis Marak, Graham Marks, Nancee Meeker, Ron Nagle, Richard Notkin, Elsa Rady, Don Reitz, Mary Roehm, Jerry Rothman, Adrian Saxe, Richard Shaw, Rudolph Staffel, Toshiko Takaezu, Peter Voulkos, Patti Warashina, Beatrice Wood, Betty Woodman, William Wyman

26
May
2017

JACK EARL

ARTWORKS

JACK EARL WORK IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

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UNTITLED (ANOTHER BUSH, ANOTHER STICK OF WOOD) 

Jack Earl, “Another Bush, Another Stick of Wood” 1983, white earthenware, oil paint, 24.5 x 12 x 14.5″.
Jack Earl, “Another Bush, Another Stick of Wood” 1983, white earthenware, oil paint, 24.5 x 12 x 14.5″.
Jack Earl, “Another Bush, Another Stick of Wood” 1983, white earthenware, oil paint, 24.5 x 12 x 14.5″.
Jack Earl, “Another Bush, Another Stick of Wood” 1983, white earthenware, oil paint, 24.5 x 12 x 14.5″.

MORNING DOG WALK

Jack Earl, “Morning Dog Walk” 1979, earthenware, glaze, 11 x 8.5 x 5″.
Jack Earl, “Morning Dog Walk” 1979, earthenware, glaze, 11 x 8.5 x 5″.
Jack Earl, “Morning Dog Walk” 1979, earthenware, glaze, 11 x 8.5 x 5″.
Jack Earl, “Morning Dog Walk” 1979, earthenware, glaze, 11 x 8.5 x 5″.

CEL 001 OHIO DOG

Jack Earl, “CEL 001 Ohio Dog”, 1976, vitreous china, 20 x 26 x 14.5″
Jack Earl, “CEL 001 Ohio Dog” 1976, vitreous china, 20 x 26 x 14.5″.
Jack Earl, “CEL 001 Ohio Dog” 1976, vitreous china, 20 x 26 x 14.5″.
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22
May
2017
VIOLA FREY

VIOLA FREY

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AVAILABLE WORKS

Select works for sale from private collections, estates, and artist archives.

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12
May
2017
AKIO TAKAMORI

AKIO TAKAMORI

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Teapot Kissing Figures in O shape

Akio Takamori

  • Date of Production : c. 1990
  • Maker ‏ : ‎ Akio Takamori
  • Material ‏ : ‎ porcelain
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10 x 12 x 3.5 inches
  • Provenance: Made in the Artists’ Studio (Akio Takamori) (c. 1990) to The Neumark Collection.

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Lovers Vase

Akio Takamori

  • Date of Production : circa 1980
  • Maker ‏ : ‎ Akio Takamori
  • Material ‏ : ‎ porcelain
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.25 x 6.5 x 6.5 inches
  • Provenance: Made in the Artists’ Studio (Akio Takamori) (1980) to Aaron Milrad Collection.

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Sleeping Mother and Child

Akio Takamori

  • Date of Production : 2008
  • Maker ‏ : ‎ Akio Takamori
  • Material ‏ : ‎ porcelain
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 25 x 9 x 5 inches
  • Provenance: Made in the Artists’ Studio (Akio Takamori) (2008) to Barry Friedman Gallery to The Neumark Collection (2008).

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Akio Takamori

b. 1950, Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan
d.  2017, Seattle, WA

Takamori was a seminal figure in ceramic art, whose work over the past thirty years has left an enduring impact on the Pacific Northwest arts and the medium itself. His work is often autobiographical, drawing on his life in Japan, his family, and mythological themes. He is known for his coil-built figurative sculptures in which the narrative painting defines the form.  Takamori explored themes of cultural identity by engaging the history of Eastern and Western aesthetics. Bold form and color defines his body of work, which is highly expressive of human emotion and sensuality.

Akio Takamori was born and raised in Japan. He has been exhibiting in the United States, Europe and Asia since the mid 1980s. Takamori received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1976 and his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University in 1978.

Takamori’s work is included in numerous collections including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Los Angels County Museum of Art, Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Ariana Museum in Geneva, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including three National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grants (1986, 1988, 1992), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2006), and the USA Ford Fellowship (2011). Takamori was a professor of art at the University of Washington. He lived and worked in Seattle.

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