1980s Vintage Original Signed Robert Turner Mid Century African Inspired Vase

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Up for sale is this signed Vintage Original Robert Turner Mid Century African Inspired Vase with a carved / etched … Read more Up for sale is this signed Vintage Original Robert Turner Mid Century African Inspired Vase with a carved / etched design.
This signature is from between 1989 and 1998.
10 1/2" High x 9" widest
Top opening 5 3/4" edge to edge
Bottom Opening 5" edge to edge

ROBERT TURNER (1913 - 2005)
Robert Turner's work throughout the 1950s and 1960s he made functional, wheel thrown wares; casseroles, covered jars, vases and bowls. In the 1970s Turner begin to experiment with making abstract, non-functional pottery following the approach to clay taught by Peter Voulkos.

During the 1970s he travelled to Western Africa and returned to his studio to make distinctive vessel forms named after African peoples and kingdoms. By the 1980s, still working with the artistic impressions from his African trip, Turner reduced his visual vocabulary to cone and cylinder shapes colored with three basic hues; blue-black, red-brown, and whites.

Turner created simple, functional stoneware vessel forms that are now icons of mid-century American studio ceramics. Initially, influenced by classical Greek and Chinese ceramics, his mature works reflected diverse influences including Japanese folk pottery, Zen Buddhism, Bauhaus design and modern Scandinavian ceramics.

Turner began his artistic career as a painter. In 1944, pressured by a limited income, Turner decided to pursue a career as a potter. Shortly after earning his MFA at the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Turner was invited to establish the studio pottery program at Black Mountain College, North Carolina. In 1951 Turner returned to teach at Alfred and built his own studio at Alfred Station, New York. See less