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Richard DeVore

{{short description|American sculptor}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Richard E. DeVore

| other_names = Richard De Vore

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|04|27}}{{Cite web|title=Ontdek beeldhouwer Richard DeVore|url=https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/22404|access-date=2021-08-23|website=RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History|language=nl}}

| birth_place = Toledo, Ohio, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2006|06|25|1933|04|27}}

| death_place = Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.

| education = University of Toledo,
Cranbrook Academy of Art

| occupation = cermacist, professor

}}

Richard E. DeVore, also written as Richard De Vore{{Cite book|title=Richard De Vore|publisher=Cranbrook Art Museum|year=2008|isbn=978-0-9668577-7-1}}{{Cite web|title=Untitled #876|url=https://collections.lacma.org/node/197354|access-date=2021-08-23|website=LACMA Collections}} (1933 – 2006) was an American ceramicist, professor. He was known for stoneware.{{Cite web|title=Richard DeVore|url=https://www.askart.com/artist_museums/Richard_E_DeVore/55589/Richard_E_DeVore.aspx|access-date=2021-08-23|website=AskArt.com}} He was faculty at Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Ceramics Department, from 1966 to 1978.

Background and education

Image:Untitled (-403) Vessel, multi-glazed stoneware by Richard DeVore, 1983, Smithsonian American Art Museum.jpg]]

Richard E. DeVore was born in Toledo, Ohio on April 27, 1933.{{cite web |title=Richard DeVore |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/richard-devore-1241 |website=Home Smithsonian American Art Museum Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=21 February 2020}} He earned a bachelor of education degree with an art major from the University of Toledo in 1955, and received a master of fine arts degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1957.{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Contemporary American Ceramics|url=https://www.jccc.edu/exhibitions/1994-07-24-thompson-contemporary-ceramics.html|access-date=2021-08-23|website=JCCC Digital Department, Johnson County Community College|language=en}} While in Michigan, he studied ceramics under Maija Grotell,{{Cite book|last=Marter|first=Joan M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C|title=The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art|date=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-533579-8|pages=432|language=en}} an influential Finnish-born American ceramist.

Career

In 1966, DeVore became head of the ceramics department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. He joined the Colorado State University art faculty in 1978 where he continued teaching until 2004.

In 1987, DeVore was installed as a fellow of the American Craft Council. Based in Fort Collins, Colorado,[http://www.denverpost.com/2006/06/27/artist-devore-transcended-clays-limits/ Artist DeVore transcended clay’s limits – The Denver Post] Retrieved 2017-03-07. he was known for simple, organic forms finished in dull glazes that suggest polished stones, sun-bleached bones, or even translucent skin.

Death

DeVore died from lung cancer in Fort Collins, Colorado on June 25, 2006.{{Cite web|date=2006-06-27|title=Artist DeVore transcended clay's limits|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2006/06/27/artist-devore-transcended-clays-limits/|access-date=2021-08-23|website=The Denver Post|language=en-US}}

Collections

DeVore's ceramic works are represented at the following museum collections:

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References

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External links

  • [http://www.franklloyd.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=5 Examples of DeVore's work at the Frank Lloyd Gallery]

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Category:1933 births

Category:2006 deaths

Category:People from Fort Collins, Colorado

Category:Deaths from lung cancer in Colorado

Category:University of Toledo alumni

Category:Cranbrook Academy of Art alumni

Category:Colorado State University faculty

Category:20th-century American sculptors

Category:American male sculptors

Category:Sculptors from Colorado

Category:20th-century American male artists