Richard DeVore

Richard DeVore was an American ceramicist who 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. 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, Colorado on June 25, 2006.

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
*Boymans van Beunigen Museum, Rotterdam, Holland
*Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
*Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
*The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
*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 Art, Flint, Michigan
*Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University at Logan, Utah
*High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
*J. Patrick Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles
*John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
*Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha Nebraska
*Kestner Museum Hanover,Germany
*Krannert Museum, University of Illinois at Champaign, Illinois
*Kruithuis Museum, The Netherlands
*Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
*The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
*M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
*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 Art, 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, Netherlands
*Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
*St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
*University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, Colorado
*University of Michigan Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
*Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
*Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
*Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts
*Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

External links

* [http://www.franklloyd.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=5 Examples of DeVore's work at the Frank Lloyd Gallery]
* [http://www.craftcouncil.org/ American Craft Council]