BOOKS & MONOGRAPHS

de Bos, Cynthia, Nancy Lim, Viola Frey with Charles Fiske, Jenelle Porter, and Jodi Throckmorton, edited by Cynthia de Bos and Jenelle Porter. Viola Frey: Artist’s Mind/Studio/World. Oakland: Artists’ Legacy Foundation and New York: Gregory R. Miller, 2024.

Taylor, Louisa. Ceramics Masterclass: Creative Techniques of 100 Great Artists. London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 2020.

Griffin, Susan. Viola Frey: Women & Men. Berkeley: Kelly’s Cove Press, 2017.

Lynn, Martha Drexler. American Studio Ceramics – Innovation and Identity, 1940-1979. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.

Held, Peter and Sealy Lineberry, eds. Crafting a Continuum: Rethinking Contemporary Craft. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

Raine, Barry and Seward Johnson, et al. Grounds for Sculpture: A Living Legacy, Intuitive Encounters with Art in Nature. Hamilton, NJ: Sculpture Foundation, Inc.; New York: MTM Publishing, 2013.

Koplos, Janet and Bruce Metcalf. Makers: A History of American Studio Craft. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Lauria, Jo and Suzanne Baizerman. California Design: The Legacy of West Coast Craft and Style. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005.

Clark, Garth and Peter Schjeldahl. “Cracks in the Sidewalk: A Chronological Study of the Art and World of Viola Frey.” In Shards: Garth Clark on Ceramic Art, edited by John Pagliaro. New York: Ceramic Arts Foundation/Distributed Art Publications, 2003.

Johnstone, Mark and Leslie Aboud Holzman. Epicenter: San Francisco Bay Area Art Now. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2002.

Stroud, Marion Boulton. New Material as New Media: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, edited by Kelly Mitchell. Philadelphia: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, 2002.

Del Vecchio, Mark. Postmodern Ceramics. London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 2001.

Landauer, Susan. The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration. Kansas City: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; San Jose: San Jose Museum of Art, 2000.

Lauria, Jo. Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000, edited by Margaret Gray. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000.

Reisman, Richard. Local Color: The di Rosa Collection of Contemporary California Art. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999.

Speight, Charlotte and John Toki. Hands in Clay: An Introduction to Ceramics. Houston: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1999. 149, 152.

Adlin, Jane. Contemporary Ceramics: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998.

Munsterberg, Hugo and Marjorie Munsterberg. World Ceramics: From Prehistoric to Modern Times. New York: Penguin Studio, 1998.

Zhou, Guangzhen “Po.” American Ceramic Artists Today. Beijing: The People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 1998.

Heller, Jules, and Nancy G. Heller, eds. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland, 1995.

Greenberg, Jan and Sandra Jordan. The Sculptor’s Eye. New York: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 1993.

Lynn, Martha Drexler. Clay Today: Contemporary Ceramists and Their Work. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco: San Francisco Chronicle Books, 1990.

Clark, Garth. The Eccentric Teapot: Four Hundred Years of Invention. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1989.

Perry, Barbara and William C. Ketchum. American Ceramics: The Collection of the Everson Art Museum. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1989.

Levin, Elaine. The History of American Ceramics: 1607 to the Present. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988.

Clark, Garth. American Ceramics: 1876 to the Present, edited by Libby W. Seaberg. New York: Abbeville Press, Inc., 1987.

Dormer, Peter. The New Ceramics: Trends + Traditions. New York: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 1986.

Albright, Thomas. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

Speight, Charlotte F. Images In Clay Sculpture: Historical and Contemporary Techniques. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.

Wechsler, Susan. Low-Fire Ceramics: A New Direction in American Clay. New York: Watson-Guptil Publications, 1981.

Clark, Garth, ed. Ceramic Art: Comment and Review 1882-1977. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978.

Donhauser, Paul. The History of American Ceramics: The Studio Potter. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1978.

Maybeck, Jacomena and others. Noni Eccles Treadwell Ceramic Arts Center: Ceramics. Oakland: California College of Arts and Crafts, c. 1973.