Vivika & Otto Heino Museum Quality Studio Pottery Charger

Description

This large and important 15" round platter is an impressive tour de force showing off the work of one of … more This large and important 15" round platter is an impressive tour de force showing off the work of one of the most important and influential studio potters of the 20th century.
This charger was produced by them at their studio in Ojai in the 80s/90s
Their studio/home which was built Beatrice Wood

The glaze is a soft satin slightly bespeckled rich creamy white like a fresh layer of snow in the mountain woods of Ojai where this was produced.
Truly a museum piece.
Rarely do such monumental & important works come to market for Vivika & Otto Heino.

Dimensions:
15 1/8" x 15 1/8" x 2"



Selected exhibits, collections & awards:

American Craft Museum, New York City, New York
County Art Museum and Craft Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
De Young Museum, San Francisco, California
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Picasso Museum in Vallauris, France
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
Mingei Museum, San Diego, California
Ventura County Museum
Gold Medal from the Sixth Biennale internationale de céramique d'art, in Vallauris, France. (1978)
Silver Medal from the International Ceramics Exhibitions in Ostend, Belgium (1959)

Public Collections
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California
Ariana Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, New York
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Hartford Jewish Community Center, Hartford, Connecticut
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California
Memphis College of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California
Museum of Art and Design, New York, New York
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
St. Paul Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota
Scripps College, Claremont, California
Southern Highland Craft Guild, Asheville, North Carolina
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Bibliography
Carney, Margaret, Val Cushing, and Gerry Williams. What You Give Away You Keep Forever: The Vivika and Otto Heino Retrospective.Alfred, NY: Schein-Joseph Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, 1995.
Levin, Elaine. "Otto and Vivika Heino,” Ceramics Monthly, October 1977.
Merrill, Forrest, Vivika Heino, and Otto Heino. The Art of Vivika and Otto Heino. Ventura, CA: Ventura County Museum of History & Art, 2005.
Wallace, Kevin V. and Tim Schiffer. The Art of Vivika & Otto Heino. Ventura, CA: Ventura County Museum of History & Art, 1995. less