Peter Voulkos; [Oakland Museum of California]

Celebrating the Life of Peter Voulkos, 1924-2002 : Saturday, April 6, 2002, 5: 30 P.M. , James Moore Theatre, Oakland Museum of California

Oakland, Calif.: [Oakland Museum of California], 2002. 4to. [ca 40 pp.]. Very Good. Soft Cover. Illustrated paper wraps. Spiral binding. Crease on verso, and signs of handling. B&W plates; reproductions of letters, certificates, sketches. Three newspaper clippings laid in. Extremely Scarce. Peter Voulkos was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art. He established the ceramics department at the Los Angeles County Art Institute and at UC Berkeley. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz (1919-2019). .

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Book number: 17-2959

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E H Woolsey; Oakland. Health Department

Annual Report of the Health Officer to the City Council of Oakland, California, for 1880

Oakland : Daily Times Book and Job Printing House, 1881. 8vo. 97 pp. Hard Covers. Good+. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Some foxing to first page, else pages fine. Graphs and charts throughout. Includes 22" x 30" fold out "Sanitary Map of Oakland". Map has significant tear on one side, but no losses. Errata slip laid in. Extremely scarce. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz. .

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Book number: 18-5912

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Carl Worth, Gerald Nordland, Mac McCloud (Oakland)

Vaea | Sculptural Survey: An Historical Overview 1967-2000, 2000

Oakland, CA: Oakland Museum of California Sculpture Court at City Center, 2000. Dealer Catalogue. 8vo. Soft Covers. 32 pp. Very Good. Color plates. Catalogue accompanies an exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California Sculpture Court at City Center September 25 to November 17, 2000. Forward by Carl Worth. Introduction by Gerald Nordland. Essay by Mac McCloud. Provenance: From the estate of Gerald Nordland (1927-2019). Nordland was a museum director, art critic, educator and author. Dean of the Chouinard Art Institute (1960-64), Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMoMA) (1966-73), Milwaukee Art Museum (1977-85), and the UCLA Wight Art Gallery (1973-1977). He is the author of over 60 publications, including books on Lachaise, Nakian, Diebenkorn and Frank Lloyd Wright. .

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Book number: 75-0817

Catalogue: Ephemera