
Kathy Wong
Senior Director, Fine Art
US$1,500 - US$2,500
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Provenance
The artist.
Verne Funk (born 1932), Wisconsin, circa 1954-55, acquired from the above.
Verne Funk is a ceramicist who is credited with introducing Funk Art to the Midwest. He attended Wisconsin State University and the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee for undergraduate and graduate study from 1952 to 1962. During the summer of 1967, Funk studied with California Funk artist Robert Arneson at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine. This two-week program made a great impact on Funk and shaped the development of his irreverent and narrative style.
Between his undergraduate and graduate studies in 1954 to 1955, Funk studied at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Betty Ecke overlapped with Funk an instructor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Asian Art History and studio art from 1953 to 1966.2 The present work was acquired from the artist during his year in Hawaiʻi.
1 Peter Held, ed. Ceramics at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Austin, Still Water Foundation, 2021, p. 150.
2 Jennie Tang, Artist-Scholar: Tradition and Modernity in the Work of Tseng Yuho (PhD diss., City University of New York, 2023), p. 13.