Artist
Lawson Oyekan (Nigerian, born England, 1961)Nigerian, born England, 1961
CultureNigerian
Titles
- Untitled
- from the series Life is Precious
Date1994
MediumStoneware
DimensionsOverall: 50 1/2 × 10 3/8 × 10 3/8 in. (128.3 × 26.4 × 26.4 cm)
Credit LineGarth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment
Object number2007.999
Not on view
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Department
Decorative Arts, Craft, and DesignSpecial Collections
Object Type
Exhibition History"Lawson Oyekan," Leicester City Gallery, Leicester, England, 1994.
"One Person Exhibition", Garth Clark Gallery, New York 1997
"Lawson Oyekan and the Spirit of Nature," Maryland Institute College of Art, Decker Gallery, Baltimore, 3 February - 20 March 2005.
"Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 4 March - 3 June, 2012.
"The Abstract Impulse: Selections from the Modern and Contemporary Collections," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 3 February - 5 May, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Incised on underside: "LAWSON / OYEKAN / 94"
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