Clayton Bailey 2 Rare Earthenware Funk Art Sculpture, 1960s

Name: Clayton Bailey 2 Rare Earthenware Funk Art Sculpture, 1960s
Brand: Clayton Bailey
Rating: 4.9 (25 reviews)

$15,000List Priceper set

About the Item

A rare pair of large, I would say life-size, sculptures by artist Clayton Bailey. Tallest is 13" to the tip of the nose. Clayton George Bailey (born 9 March 1939 in Antigo, Wisconsin), is an American artist who works primarily in the mediums of ceramic and metal sculpture. Career Bailey attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he received a B.S. degree in 1961, followed by an M.S. in Art and Art Education in 1962.[1] In 1962, Bailey served as a technical assistant to Harvey Littleton, who was conducting glassblowing seminars at the Toledo Museum of Art. Over the next five years, Bailey will travel the country accepting invitations to teach, from the People's Art Center in St. Louis, Missouri to positions with the University of Iowa, and the University of South Dakota. During this period Bailey receives a Louis Comfort Tiffany grant (1963), and will be appointed artist-in-residence at University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, where he will teach ceramics for the next three years.[1] At the bequest of Robert Arneson, Bailey covers Arneson's classes at the University of California, Davis while Arneson is on sabbatical in 1967. In 1968, Bailey relocates to northern California, where he becomes a leading figure in the ceramic vein of the regional Funk art movement, as had been pioneered by Arneson. Much of the Funk art activity is centered around UC Davis, where other prominent figures in the movement (Roy De Forest, Manuel Neri, William T. Wiley, David Gilhooly, Chris Unterseher, Margaret Dodd) either taught, or attended classes.[2] A leading venue for exhibiting Funk art was at the Candy Store Gallery, located in nearby Folsom, California, where Bailey would regularly present work in the context of both solo and group shows.[3] In 1968, Bailey began teaching at California State University, Hayward (now California State University, East Bay). He retired from this position in June 1996, with the title of Professor Emeritus of Ceramics.[1] In 1970, Bailey established a home-studio space in rural Port COSTA, California, where he became neighbors with fellow artist Roy De Forest.[2] The two collaborated on numerous projects,[1] and remained friends until De Forest's death in 2007. Overlapping the Funk art movement was Nut art, a term coined by De Forest,[4] which brought together many of the same practitioners including Arneson, De Forest, and Gilhooly, along with Peter Saul, Jerry Gooch, Victor Cicanski, Richard Shaw, David Zack. In 1972, Bailey co-curated the first-ever Nut art show at California State University, Hayward.[1] Stylistically, Bailey's work bridges several different categories and styles including Funk art, Nut art, ceramic and metallic sculpture, and Performance art. A recurring thread through all his work is humor,[2] along with a high degree of craftsmanship.[5] Another track for artistic expression developed with the creation of Bailey's alter ego Dr. George Gladstone, beginning in 1969. Initially, the works blended performance and creations based on pseudo-science and personal mythologies.[6] Works included the creation of fossilized remains (usually ceramic or from earth materials) and the classification of a new time period, the Pre-Credulous Era, the source of such Kaolithic curiosities as a cyclops skull and a Bigfoot skeleton.[1] Dressed in a lab coat and pith helmet,[2] Bailey as Dr. Gladstone performed excavations and staged performances and pranks. The World of Wonders, a traveling museum dedicated to Dr. Gladstone's life and work was developed, and presented in various venues, beginning with the Richmond Art Center. In 1976, The World of Wonders Museum opened in Downtown Port COSTA, where it became a local tourist attraction until its closure in 1978. The collection is now split between Bailey's home-studio, and the Bailey Art Museum in Downtown Crockett, California.[2] Over the years, the Dr. Gladstone character evolved into something more akin to a mad scientist, allowing Bailey to explore other forms of art with pseudo-scientific origins and associations.[2] Most notable have been sculptures based on Robots, beginning in the late 1970s and continuing on to today, although this work is now presented, and credited as Bailey's, not Dr. Gladstone's. The latest offshoot of the metallic sculpture (built from found materials and objects) has been a series of Space Guns.[1] In 1974, Bailey was profiled in Esquire Magazine as Dr. Gladstone. In the article written by Susan Subtle, "Their Arts Belong to Dada",[7] Bailey was featured alongside artists Lowell Darling, Anna Banana, Ant Farm (group), Futzie Nutzle, Dr. Brute Lady Brute, Mr. Peanut, Irene Dogmatic, AA Bronson, Captain Video, Flakey Rose Hip, Henry Humble, The Gluers[8] and Dickens Bascom, Don and Rae Davis, and T.R. Uthco. Presently, Bailey continues to work in a variety of mediums and styles. Throughout his career as an artist, Bailey has exhibited regularly throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia in both solo and group exhibitions. In 2011, Bailey was honored with a 50-year retrospective exhibition (Clayton Bailey's World of Wonders) at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California.[2] Since 1970, Bailey and his wife (fellow artist Betty Bailey), have resided in Port COSTA, California.[2] Bailey Art Museum In 2013, Bailey and his wife, artist Betty G. Bailey, founded the Bailey Art Museum in Crockett, California.[9] The Bailey Art Museum is near the Bailey's residence and studio in Port COSTA.[10] The 3,200 square feet (300 m2) space brings together works from across the artist's five decades plus career featuring examples of Funk art, Nut art, ceramics, and metal sculpture (including Robots and space guns), as well as pseudo-scientific curiosities by the artist's alter-ego Dr. Gladstone. The museum also includes narrative watercolor drawings by Betty G. Bailey and a gift shop.[11] Betty G. Bailey and Clayton Bailey at the Peace Terrace - Oakland, CA - 2014 Awards and honors 1963 – American Craft Council Grant 1963 – Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant 1979 – National Endowment for the Arts Grant Recipient 1982 – Fellow N.C.E.C.A. (National Council on Education in Ceramic Arts) 1984 – U.S. Patent #4440390 issued to Clayton G. Bailey (for a "Novelty Squirting Cup") 1990 – Panelist, California Arts Council, Artists Fellowship Program 1990 – National Endowment for the Arts Grant Recipient 1998 – Celestial Seasonings, Inc. "A Loose Interpretation III," Boulder, CO, Received Honorable Mention for creation of Celeste, the Robot Teabag 2009 – "Golden Bear Artist of the Year" Award and Commendation from the California Arts Council and the Lt. Governor of the State of California Public collections Selected Public Collections Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts American Craft Museum, New York City, New york Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan Bakken Museum and Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota Berry College, Mt. Berry, Georgia Bank of America, Chicago, Illinois Brooks Memorial Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee Burpee Museum, Rockford, Illinois Carborundum Museum of American Ceramics. Niagara Falls, New York Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, California Di Rosa Art Preserve. Napa, California Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Hokkoku Shinbun, Korinbo, Japan Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois Iowa State Art Association, Marshalltown, Iowa Johnson Foundation, Racine, Wisconsin Katzen Museum, American University, Washington, D.C. Kohler Company, Kohler, Wisconsin Karstadt, Munich, Germany Metromedia Corp., Los Angeles, California Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California Leslie Ceramic Supply, Berkeley, California Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Microsoft Corp., Seattle, Washington Mills College, Oakland, California Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, North Carolina Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, Hawaii Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Musee d' ethnographie, Neuchatel, Switzerland Muskingum College, Muskingum, Ohio nickel Arts Museum, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California Racine Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin Redding Museum, Redding, California Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C. Rhinelander Chamber of Commerce, Rhinelander, Wisconsin Richard Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, California Sacramento Light Rail, 16th Street Station (Commissioned Pavement Tiles) Sacramento State University, Sacramento, California San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California Shasta College, Redding, California Stanford University, Green Library, Palo Alto, California Stanford University, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Palo Alto, California University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma University of Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, Utah University of Washington, Seattle, Washington University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin United States Information Agency, (USIA) References.

Creator:
Clayton Bailey (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 13 in (33.02 cm)Width: 10 in (25.4 cm)Depth: 9 in (22.86 cm)
Sold As:
Set of 2
Materials and Techniques:
Earthenware
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
1960-1969
Date of Manufacture:
1960s
Condition:
original condition, no chips, cracks, brakes or repairs. minute flake to white glaze on one eye, seems to be from fabrication. apparently unsigned.
Seller Location:
Miami, FL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU924018570752

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