Viola Frey

Double Grandmother with Black and White Dresses

1982

Medium
ceramic and glazes
Dimensions
87 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (222.3 x 52.1 x 47 cm)
Inventory Number
VF-3175CS
Credit Line
Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gift of Rena Bransten, 1991.281a-h
Exhibition History
  • 2009   Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI (catalogue); also traveled to Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
  • 1991   Smith Collects Contemporary, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (catalogue)
  • 1984   Figurative Sculpture: Ten Artists/Two Decades, University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach, Long Beach, CA (catalogue)
  • 1984   Directions in Contemporary American Ceramics, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (catalogue)
  • 1983   Viola Frey: Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings, Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
  • 1982   Viola Frey: Figures, Art Gallery/Visual Arts Center, CSU Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
Bibliography
  • 2024    de Bos, Cynthia, Nancy Lim, Viola Frey with Charles Fiske, Jenelle Porter, and Jodi Throckmorton. de Bos, Cynthia, and Jenelle Porter, eds. Viola Frey: Artist’s Mind/Studio/World. Oakland: Artists’ Legacy Foundation and New York: Gregory R. Miller, forthcoming September 2024.
  • 2017    Griffin, Susan. Viola Frey: Women & Men. Berkeley: Kelly’s Cove Press, 2017.
  • 2009    Taragin, Davira. Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2009).
  • 2005    Levin, Elaine. “Viola Frey (1933-2004).” Studio Potter, December 2004. 34-38.
  • 1998    Adlin, Jane. Contemporary Ceramics: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998.
  • 1991    Wright, Patricia. “Smith goes contemporary in area’s biggest way yet.” Daily Hampshire Gazette. July 11, 1991. 27, 29.
  • 1989    Troy, Jack. “American Ceramics: Our History Begins.” American Ceramics. 1989.
  • 1988    Larsen, Susan C. Viola Frey: Monumental Figures 1978-1987. Los Angeles: Asher-Faure; San Francisco: Rena Bransten Gallery, 1988.
  • 1988    Halvorsen, Liza E. “Viola Frey.” In Connecting Conversations: Interviews with 28 Bay Area Women Artists, edited by Moira Roth (Oakland: Eucalyptus Press, Mills College, 1988).
  • 1988    Levin, Elaine. The History of American Ceramics: 1607 to the Present. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988.
  • 1984    Bledsoe, Jane K. and Gloria B. Skovronsky. Figurative Sculpture: Ten Artists/Two Decades, edited by Constance W. Glenn. Long Beach: CSU Long Beach, 1984.
  • 1984    Fairbanks, Jonathan L. and Kenworth W. Moffett. Directions in Contemporary American Ceramics. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1984.
  • 1982    “Something of Value.” Jewish Welfare Federation Bulletin (San Francisco: Jewish Welfare Federation), March 1982.
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