Lawson Oyekan
Coming Up for Air

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Artist Lawson Oyekan (Nigerian, born England, 1961)Nigerian, born England, 1961

CultureNigerian

Titles

Coming Up for Air
from the series Coming Up for Air

Date1999

MediumPorcelain

DimensionsOverall: 19 1/4 × 9 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (48.9 × 23.5 × 21 cm)

Credit LineGarth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection, museum purchase funded by Martyn E. Goossen, Frank J. Hevrdejs, and Gary Petersen at "One Great Night in November, 2008", in honor of the United States economy coming up for air

Object number2007.1000

Not on view

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Department

Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Special Collections

Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection of Contemporary Ceramics

Object Type

CERAMICS

ProvenanceThe artist; [Garth Clark Gallery]; pruchased by MFAH, 2007.
Exhibition HistoryInternational Academy of Ceramics Members Exhibition, Foundation Keramion: Centre of Modern + Historical Ceramics Frechen, Koln, Germany, 1999. "Lawson Oyekan," Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY, 2000.

"Ceramic Modernism: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and Their Legacy," The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada, 2002.

"Lawson Oyekan and the Spirit of Nature," Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, 2005.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Label on underside: "NONO 45 / $3500"

Etched in underside: "OY KAN LAWSON 1999 ..." [remainder illegible]

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