Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Ken Price, Sculptor Whose Artworks Helped Elevate Ceramics, Dies at 77. By ROBERTA SMITH. Published: February 24, 2012. Ken Price, whose small,... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Ken Price, Sculptor Whose Artworks Helped Elevate Ceramics, Dies at 77. By ROBERTA SMITH. Published: February 24, 2012. Ken Price, whose small, worldly, exquisitely finished abstract sculptures in glazed or painted clay exploded the... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Ken Price, Sculptor Whose Artworks Helped Elevate Ceramics, Dies at 77. By ROBERTA SMITH. Published: February 24, 2012. Ken Price, whose small, worldly, exquisitely finished abstract sculptures in glazed or painted clay exploded the distinction between art and craft and established him as one of the outstanding artists of postwar America, died on Friday at his home in Arroyo Hondo, N.M., outside Taos. He was 77. His family said that the... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Ken Price, Sculptor Whose Artworks Helped Elevate Ceramics, Dies at 77. By ROBERTA SMITH. Published: February 24, 2012. Ken Price, whose small, worldly, exquisitely finished abstract sculptures in glazed or painted clay exploded the distinction between art and craft and established him as one of the outstanding artists of postwar America, died on Friday at his home in Arroyo Hondo, N.M., outside Taos. He was 77. His family said that the cause was cancer, which was first diagnosed in 2008. Mr. Price belonged to a talent-rich generation of artists who emerged across the United States in the late 1950s and '60s, responding to the innovations of Abstract Expressionism with innovations of... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Ken Price, Sculptor Whose Artworks Helped Elevate Ceramics, Dies at 77. By ROBERTA SMITH. Published: February 24, 2012. Ken Price, whose small, worldly, exquisitely finished abstract sculptures in glazed or painted clay exploded the distinction between art and craft and established him as one of the outstanding artists of postwar America, died on Friday at his home in Arroyo Hondo, N.M., outside Taos. He was 77. His family said that the cause was cancer, which was first diagnosed in 2008. Mr. Price belonged to a talent-rich generation of artists who emerged across the United States in the late 1950s and '60s, responding to the innovations of Abstract Expressionism with innovations of their own. Until the last decade of his life, when he started working larger, his compressed, bravura objects rarely mea... Read full biography
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About Kenneth Price: Books
Books & Publications (53)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Abstract Art, New Mexico Artists Series
2003
Ashman, Stuart; Suzanne Deats
256 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Contemporary Art in New Mexico
1996
Adlmann, Jan/Barbara McIntyre
226 pages (color)
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
Ken Price: Career Survey (Exhibition catalog)
1994
0 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Artists of 20th Century New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Collection
1992
Museum of Fine Arts
167 pages (color)
Printmaking in New Mexico 1880-1990
1991
Adams, Clinton
167 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
The History of American Ceramics 1607 to Present
1987
0 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987
Krane, Susan
379 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
American Ceramics 1876 to the Present, revised edition
1985
Clark, Garth
0 pages
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
Art of the States Works from a Santa Barbara Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1984
McDonald, Robert; Richard Vincent West
80 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
The Taos Artists A Historical and Biographical Dictionary
1984
Witt, David L
63 pages
The First Show (1940-1980) Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Museum of Contemporary Art
293 pages (color)
An International Survey of Recent Paintings and Sculpture
1982
McShine, Kynaston
0 pages
1981 Biennial Exhibition Whitney Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Armstrong, Tom (Foreward)
159 pages
Southern California Artists 1940-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Ball, Maudette
66 pages (color)
Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists Whitney Museum of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Marshall, Richard & Foley, Suz
0 pages
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties Seventeen Artists in the Sixties (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Tuchman, Maurice
162 pages (color)
Los Angeles Prints 1883-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Feinblatt, Ebria/Bruce Davis
111 pages
Documents, Drawings, and Collages Fifty American Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Butler, Hiram (others)
123 pages
Frederick Weisman Collection California Art (Exhibition catalog)
1978
California State U Long Beach
64 pages (color)
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 pages
200 Years of American Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Armstrong, Tom
336 pages (color)
30 Years of American Printmaking Including 20th National Print Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Baro, Gene
160 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era
1976
San Francisco Mus Modern Art
272 pages (color)
A Century of Ceramics in the United States 1878-1978
1975
Clark, Garth and Hughto, Margi
0 pages
American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures
1974
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
80 pages
Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections
1974
Gidley, Mick
58 pages
Separate Realities California Representational Painting/Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Los Angeles Mun Art Gallery
60 pages (color)
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972
1972
Amon Carter Museum
600 pages
11 Los Angeles Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Arts Council of Great Britain
64 pages (color)
West Coast 1945-1969 (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Coplans, John
60 pages
Kompas 4 Westkust USA/West Coast USA (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Eindhoven, Abbemuseum
50 pages (color)
Drawings: Exhibition of Contemporary American Drawings Fort Worth Art Center Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Hopkins, Henry (Preface); Peter Plagens, Essay
84 pages
Modern American Sculpture
1967
Ashton, Dore
130 pages (color)
A Decade of Ceramic Art 1962-1972 From the Collection of Prof and Mrs Joseph Monsen (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Foley, Suzanne
0 pages
Robert Irwin / Kenneth Price (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Leider, Philip
32 pages (color)
Abstract Expressionist Ceramics University of California at Irvine Art Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
0
0 pages
Kenneth Price Los Angeles County Mus of Art (Exhibition catalog)