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Kenneth Price

Kenneth Price (1935 - 2012) was active/lived in New Mexico, California.  Kenneth Price is known for Colorful ceramic objects-eggs, teacups, surreal forms.

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 measured more than 10 or 20 inches on a side. Their forms oscillated between the bio-morphic and the ge   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 14145 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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