Today’s offering is this amazing Turned Norfolk Pine Vessel titled “SL“, from the exclusive Ron Kent Collection.  This bowl is a one of a kind creation by world renowned Arts and Crafts artist Ron Kent.  This bowl measures 9 inches tall and 13 inches in diameter.  This is a “Spaulted” vessel, evident by the unique dark striping pattern throughout the bowl.

Each turned wood vessel requires over 80 coats of natural oil soaking over several months to finish.

Ron is one of America’s most important minimalist artists, and his work is highly sought after.  He is currently collected by over 75 major museums and public collections including the following:

 

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

The Louvre (Musée des Arts Decoratifs), Paris

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The White House Permanent Collection (Clinton Library)

Smithsonian Institution:

S.A.A.M. (Renwick Gallery), Washington, D.C.

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

American Craft Museum, New York

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Yale University Art Gallery

Newark Museum

Mobile Museum of Art

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Mint Museum of Art + Design, Charlotte, NC

High Museum of Art, Atlanta

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Arizona State University, Tempe

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum

Oakland Museum, California

Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts

Hawaii State Art Museum

Honolulu Academy of Arts

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Chas. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI  (Racine Art Museum, Racine)

Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Denver Museum, Colorado

The Toledo Museum, Ohio

University of Michigan Museum, Ann Arbor

Fuller Craft Museum, Brocton, MA

Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St.Joseph, MO (undocumented)

Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA

Koa Gallery, Kapiolani Community College, Honolulu

det Danske Kunstindustrimusee, Copenhagen Hawke’s Bay Cultural Trust, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand

 

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS OF WORK

1995 Dr. Thomas Klestil, President, Republic of Austria, by J. Hans Strasser, Consul General of Austria in Hawai’i

1994 Emperor Akihito of Japan by Kensaku Hogen, Consul General of Japan in Hawai’i, and the Japan-America Society

1993 President William Jefferson Clinton, by Congressman Neil Abercrombie

1990 President George H.W. Bush, by Congresswoman Patricia Saiki

1987 His Holiness Pope John Paul II, by Drs. Roger and Maria Brault

1985 Crown Prince Hitachi of Jan, by Hawaii Japanese Chamber of Commerce

Senator Daniel Inouye, by Hawaii Democrat Party

H.R.H. Sultan Iskandar of Johor, Agong, Malaysia

1984 President Ronald Reagan, by Hawaii Republican Party

Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, by the University of Hawai’i School of Law

1983 Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, by the University of Hawai’i School of Law

1981 Governor Hikaru Kamei, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, by the Hawaii State Senate