Robert Winokur

Painters Mug and Brush

Daley Family Donation

Paintbrush: 1"H 2.25"W 14"L

Mug: 3.5"H 7.25"W 3.25"L

Robert Winokur Artist Biography

Robert (Bob) Winokur (1933-2020), a renowned ceramic artist first became interested in ceramics in high school. He pursued his interest at Tyler School of Art earning his BFA in 1956, then at Alfred University, where he earned his MFA in 1958. It was also in 1958 when Winokur married the groundbreaking and internationally-acclaimed artist Paula Colton Winokur (Tyler BFA and BS Ed '58). Together, the Winokurs maintained a shared ceramics studio for more than 50 years. Winokur's practice evolved over the years, with stylized house forms being a recurrent subject. He considered their physical and metaphorical space as vessels themselves.

His works appear in dozens of public and private collections around the world, including Le cite du Ceramics: The Louvre, Paris, France; The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; International Ceramic Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary; International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva, Switzerland; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art - to name just a few. Among his extensive list of awards and accolades are a Visual Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1979); an honorary fellow of The National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (1983); fellowships in crafts by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (2003 and 1988); an American Crafts Council College of Fellows inductee (2002); and a member of The International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva, Switzerland (2004). Winokur is survived by his two children: Stephan and Michael.

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