Yoshio Taylor "Mitoshi" Ceramic Mask. Titled, signed, and dated 1985 on the back. 

Provenance: Peter Klipstas acquired from the Dorothy Weiss Gallery in San Francisco in 1985. 

Size: 18 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 22 in. 

Yoshio Taylor has worked in clay for over two decades and has become one of Sacramento Valley’s foremost artist in the field of ceramics. Taylor received his master’s degree from California State University, Sacramento in 1979. He went on to University of California, Berkeley where he received his Master of Fine Arts while studying with Peter Voulkos. Currently, he teaches full time at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento.

Some of Taylor’s major exhibitions include: Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara California; The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco Crafts and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, California and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California.

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