Richard DeVore

Richard DeVore (1933 - 25 June 2006) was an American ceramicist that was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1933. He earned a B.Ed. degree with an art major from the University of Toledo in 1955, and received an M.F.A. from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1957. In 1966 DeVore became head of the ceramics department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. He was a member of the Colorado State University art faculty from 1978 to 2004. In 1987, DeVore was installed as a fellow of the American Craft Council. Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, He is known for simple, organic forms finished in dull glazes that suggest polished stones, sun bleached bones or even translucent skin. He died from lung cancer in Fort Collins on June 25, 2006. Meulensteen Gallery in New York represents his estate.

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• Civil War Music Practice
• Collections
• References

Collections

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

American Craft Museum, New York

Arizona State University Art Museum

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House, Honolulu, Hawaii

Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware

Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan

Eastern Michigan University, Art Gallery, Ypsilanti, Michigan

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan

Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University at Logan, Utah

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

J. Patrick Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, California

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

Kestner-Museum, Hanover, Germany

Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Champaign, Illinois

Kruithuis Museum, The Netherlands

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina

Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

National Collection of Contemporary Art, Paris, France

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University, Tempe

Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, Colorado

University of Michigan Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut