Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- Ralph Bacerra uses spiraling lines, squares, dots, and incisions to lead the eye around the entire piece. He makes no preliminary sketches before starting a new vessel, relying on each element of his work to inspire him as he goes along. As he says, “I put a color down and that leads to another color and shapes begin to emerge . . .” (quoted in American Style, Summer 2001). The bold colors for which Bacerra is known stem from the varying temperatures in the kiln.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Ralph Bacerra, born Garden Grove, CA 1938-died Los Angeles, CA 2008
- Date
- 2000
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of The Greenberg Foundation, Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, and Carol and Charles Rademaker and their children Garth and Louise
- Medium
- earthenware with overglazed enamels and metallic lusters
- Dimensions
- 34 3/4 x 16 1/2 in. (88.3 x 41.9 cm)
- Type
- Decorative Arts-Ceramic
- Crafts
