Richard DeVore
Richard DeVore (1933 - 2006) was one of the most important American ceramicists of the past century. He earned a B.Ed. degree with an art major from the University of Toledo in 1955, and received an M.F.A. from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1957. In 1966 DeVore became head of the ceramics department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. He was a member of the Colorado State University art faculty from 1978 to 2004. In 1987, DeVore was installed as a fellow of the American Craft Council. He is known for simple, organic forms finished in dull glazes that suggest polished stones, sun bleached bones or even translucent skin.
DeVore's vessels are in numerous private collections and in over 40 museum collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, American Craft Museum, New York, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, the National Museum of Art in Washington D.C., the Louvre's National Collection of Contemporary Art in Paris, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland Kestner-Museum, Hanover, Germany, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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Richard DeVore
clay and glaze
7 × 8.25 × 8.5”
date unknown
Richard DeVore
stoneware and glaze
4.25 × 14 × 14”
date unknown
Richard DeVore
stoneware and glaze
4.5 x 7.75 x 7.75”
date unknown
Richard DeVore
stoneware and glaze
3.5 x 5 x 4.75”
date unknown
Richard DeVore
stoneware and glaze
date unknown
1.75 x 10 x 10.5”
Richard DeVore
stoneware and glaze
16.5 x 12 x 9”
circa 1984
marked #341
provenance: Belles Artes, Santa Fe, New Mexico
*Slight chip repair to rim.
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Richard DeVore
stoneware and glaze
3.25 x 5.75 x 6”
date unknown
Richard DeVore
stoneware and glaze
10.5 x 11 x 9.5’’
date unknown
Provenance: Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Richard DeVore
glazed earthenware
18.13 x 12.5 x 9”
circa 2000
signed 942 on base
Richard DeVore
glazed earthenware
16.5 x 10.5 x 9”
circa 2001
signed #915 on bottom
Richard DeVore
4 x 11”
stoneware and glaze
date unknown
*slight professional restoration to chip on rim
Richard DeVore
stoneware and glaze
3.75 x 13.5 x 13.5”
circa 1979
Richard DeVore
Stoneware and glaze
6 x 11 x 10.5’’
1988
Provenance: Purchased from the Mark Graham in 1988
Richard DeVore
Clay, glaze and gold luster
4 x 10 x 9.5"
Circa pre 1970
Provenance: Early experimental ceramic openwork bowl with multi-color and gilt glazes. Acquired directly from Richard DeVore when he was the ceramics master at Cranbrook Academy of Art. It was originally purchased from the daughter of Glen Paulsen, president of the Academy and head of the Architecture Department at the time (1966- 1970).
Condition: Small 1/4" repair chip to rim.
Richard DeVore
clay and glaze
3.5 × 6.5 × 6”
circa 1978