Acquisitions, Publications & Exhibitions  

Acquisitions

Museum Collections

Publications

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
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Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL

Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

American Craft Museum, New York, NY

National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Museum of Fine Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Woodturning Center Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

High Museum, Atlanta, GA

Chicago Institute of Art, Chicago, IL

Hawaii Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, HI

Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Cornell Museum, Ithaca, New York

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

The Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC

Decorative Arts Museum of Little Rock, AR

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Long Beach Museum of Art

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis


Publications:
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2009        

“Masters: Woodturning,”
     Lark Books

2007        

“Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft • Selections from the Wornick Collection,”      MFA Publications, Boston, MA

“Craft in America: Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects,”
     Clarkson Random House Imprint Potter/Publishers

2006        

“The Presence of Absence: Exploring the Void in Contemporary Wood Sculpture,”
      Collectors of Wood Art

“SOFA Chicago: The Thirteenth Annual International Exposition of Sculptural Objects & Functional Art,”
     Expressions of Culture, Inc., Chicago, IL

Transforming Vision: The Wood Sculpture of William Hunter 1970-2005
      Long Beach Museum of Art

2004

500 Wood Bowls, Leier, Peters & Wallace

 Nature Transformed, Wood Art from the Bohlen Collection
      Blackburn, Martin, McFadden & Ulmer

Celebrating Nature, Craft Traditions / Contemporary Expressions, Wallace

Wood Art Today, Meilach

2003

Masters of their Craft, Trapp

Sacred Vessels, National Jewish Center for Learning & Leadership

Woodturning Design, Darlow

2002

Shifting Foundations, Craftwest, Australia

Raw Wood – Surface and Form, Craftwest Australia

2001

Challenge VI – Roots: Insights & Inspirations in Contemporary Turned Objects
      Holzapfel, Rice & Tyler

Wood Turning in North America Since 1930, Wood Turning Center &
      Yale University Art Gallery

2000

Turning Wood into Art: The Jane and Arthur Mason Collection, Ramljak, Monroe

The Fine Art of Wood: The Bohlen Collection, Fike, Mendelson

1999

Living with Form: the Horn Collection of Contemporary Crafts, The Arkansas Arts Center

  Contemporary Turned Wood: New Perspectives in a Rich Tradition, Leier, Peters, Wallace

The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, Burgard

1998

Skilled work: America Craft in the Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art

1996

Expressions in Wood: Masterworks from The Wornick Collection, Kangas, Perreault, Cooke, Jr.

1985 

The Art of Turned-Wood Bowls, Jacobson

Periodicals:
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2009

‘Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair,’   Ornament, 2009 Vo. 32 #3

 American Craft, American Craft Council,   April/May 2009

  ‘Sofa Chicago 2008,’   Craft Arts International, No. 75, 2009

2007

“Contemporary Fiber & Wood Sculpture,” Gallery Guide West Coast
      June, July, August 2007

Collecting Sculpture,” Art & Antiques, June 2007

 Art Guild News, The Oakland Museum of California, Feb/Mar 2007

American Style, April 2007

“William Hunter Retrospective,” Woodwork Magazine, February 2007

2006

“Natural Rhythms,” American Style, Volume 13, #2, Dec. 2006

“Transforming Vision,” Peninsula People, Vol XI, Issue 4, October 2006

“Collaboration: William & Marianne Hunter,” Ornament, 2006 Vol. 30 No. 1

“Exhibit explores Peninsula wood sculptor’s lifework,” Peninsula News,
     Vol. 69 No. 80, October 7, 2006

“Transforming Vision,” The Easy Reader, Oct. 5, 2006

2005

“Plagiarism, Copying & Influences,” American Woodturner, Fall 2005, Vol 20, No. 3,
The Journal of the American Association of Woodturners

American Craft, Vol 65, No. 5, Oct/Nov 2005, American Craft Council

The Palm Beach Post, April 1, 2005

Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2005, James Rewick Alliance

2004               

American Craft, Vol 64, No.2, April/May 2004, American Craft Council

Turning Points, Vol. 16 no. 3, The Wood Turning Center

2002               

“Force of Nature” Craft Arts International, No. 55, 2002

“Roots” American Style Magazine, Fall 2002        

“Traveling Show” American Style Magazine, Spring 2002

2000               

“American Crafts in Belgium”  American Style Magazine, Fall 2000

“Exhibits Showcase Artistry in Wood”  The Detroit Free Press, July 9, 2000

The Crafts Report, Cover, June 2000

“Galleries Teaming Up to put Turned Wood in the Limelight”  The Charlotte Observer
     May 21, 2000

“Contemporary American Crafts: At Truman Hall, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to NATO,” Brussels, Belgium

“Gallery Hopping”  Where - New York.  June 2000

“William Hunter - Evolving Spirals” American Craft Magazine. June/July ‘00

“The View from the North -- Wood at SOFA’99”

Australian Book Review. March 2000

“SOFA Chicago 1999: Collector’s Choice”  Turning Points, Spring ‘00

1999               

“Book Review: Contemporary Turned Wood, new perspectives in a rich tradition” American Woodturner, Winter

“Collector’s Corner: Turned on to Wood” American Style, Winter 1999-2000

1998               

“Turn Style” Departures, Sept/Oct

The Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show--A Stellar Venue” The Crafts Report, March

1997               

“Out of the Woods,” Architectural Digest, August

Wood Workers Network, January,

“Burled, Shimmering or Plain: Wood and Ceramics in Their Glory” New York Times, Sunday, May 18.

“Out with the old, in with the new,” Niche, Spring

“Doing the Twist: A couple pursues their passion of the art of woodturing”. Art & Antiques, Summer

1995               

“The Artistry of Turned Wood Bowls” Hotel Bel-Air  Vol.III No. 3 Woodturning, October Art Papers Volume 19 Nov/Dec 1995

“Three Generations of Woodturning: The Making of an Art Form”. Woodworker West, September/October (Front Cover)

 “Turning is hot summer gallery fare,” Woodshop News, September

“A Special Exhibition at del Mano Gallery,” Woodworkers’ Network, September

“Woodturners’ technique ingrained with pure grace,” The Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution, Friday, July 21

Mason Collection, Washington Home and Garden “Turned On!,” American Style Magazine, Summer

“Between Centers: The Irving Lipton Collection,” Australian Wood, March, by Stephen Hughes

“The Artistry of Turned Wood Bowls,” Hotel Bel-Air

1994               

“Challenge V: International Lathe-Turned Objects,” Focus, American Craft, by Tom Csaszar

“Turned Wood ‘94,” American Woodturner, September

“Arriving at New Worlds: A Review of Challenge V,” American Woodturner, March, by Steve Loar

“Wood-turning art is enjoying revival in exhibition premiering at Ursinus,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 13, by Victoria Donohoe

Art section of The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 11

Phoenix Gazette, August 27

Tribune Newspapers, October 21

Woodshop News, November

 “Turning Exhibit & Confab at ASU Art Museum in Tempe,” Woodworker West, November/December

“ASU Conference,” Turning Points, December

ASU Insight, December 9

“Art From Old Wood,” The Arizona Republic/Phoenix Gazette, January 6

“Lathe-Turned Art,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2

“Opinions: Campus Memo: Visual Experience,” The Grizzly, March 1, by Richard Richter

“Challenge V: Objeckte von der Drehbank,” Drechseln 1//94

“New Depths: A Review of Challenge V: International Lathe-Turned Objects,” Australian Wood Review by Steve Loar

  “A Thrilling Challenge,” Woodturning, May, by Tom Tyler

“Designing Beyond,” American Woodworker, June, by Albert LeCoff

“Exhibit shows new turns taken in lathe-working,” Montgomery Newspaper, March 9, by Deni Kasrel

“Lathe-turned art: Dazzling artistry at the Berman Museum,” The Arts Connection, March, by Elaine Bauer

“55 international artists exhibit lathe-turned works,” Suburban and Wayne Times, January 27

“Special programs, auction slated for Berman lathe-turned exhibit,” Valley Item, January 27

“Berman Museum prepares for exhibition opening, Jan. 29,” Bucks-Mont Courier, January 3

“Lathe-turned objects on view at Berman Museum,” The Arts Connection, January

“Free Weekend Demonstrations On Art of Lathe Turning,” The Independent & Montgomery Transcript, February 15

“WTC Sponsors Weekend Workshop at Ursinus,” Independent & Montgomery Transcript,      February 22

“Workshop to teach craft of lathe turning,” Valley Item, February 24

“Lathe-turning techniques demonstrated,” Times-Herald, February 26

“College Plans Free Lathe Turning Demonstrations,” News-Herald, February 16

“Wood demos at Ursinus,” The Phoenix, February 12

“Turning wood to art,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 6

“Berman Museum prepares for international lathe-turned objects exhibit,” Valley Item,
     January 20

“More than just whittlin’,” The Phoenix, January 27

“More than just whittlin’,” Township Voice, January 27

“Exploring craft of wood turning,” Philadelphia Business Journal, February 11-17

“Challenge V: The Ultimate Challenge,” Turning Points, Fall 93/Winter 94

“Lathe turn makes art,” Chester County Township Voice, January 27

“Berman Museum of Art Offers Special Programs,” Independent and Montgomery Transcript,      January 24

“Small Treasures,” American Woodturner, June, by Connie Mississippi

”Collecting-Roles and Responsibilities,” Turning Point, Fall, by Connie Mississippi

“The Philadelphia Craft Show,” Craft Arts International

“Collecting - Roles and Responsibilities,” Turning Points, Fall, by Connie Mississippi

Turning Points, Summer/Fall

1993               

Renwick Quarterly, March - May

“Woodworking Featured at LA Fair Craft Show,” The Southern California Woodworker,
September/October

“Et Cetera,” Art of California, October

“Hagley Museum to Host Turning Conference, Show,” Woodshop News, April,
by Daniel Mac Alpine

“ASU Exhibit is Chip Off Old Woodshop Block,” Tribune Newspaper, January 30,
by Jeffrey Crane

1992               

“Getting Turned on to Wood,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 27,
by Bill Zimmer

1991               

del Mano Newsletter, Spring

“The 15th Annual Pacific States Crafts Fair,” SF Magazine, August

Mendocino Music Five Festival Publication

1990               

“Head Turning Wood,” Southwest Art, May

Turning Points, Winter/Spring

“O Yosemite: The Park at 100,” Los Angeles Times, September 30, by Judith Sims

“Woodwork shines in two exhibits,” Anchorage Daily News, January 28,
by Jan Ingram

“Woodworking Shows Open in Northern, Southern California,” The Sacramento Bee Final, January 13, by California Life Staff

Monthly Crafts Magazine, Seoul, Korea

1989               

“The International Turned Objects Show,” Fine Woodworking January/February

“New AMST show feature ‘Poetic,’ ‘Turned’ objects,” Caller-Times Feb. 17

“Art comes in from the woods,” February 26, by David Pickering

“Exhibit Highlights Perfection of Bowls,” Salisbury Times

  “Turning Point,” American Craft February/March

  “Bewitched by Craft,” American Craft, August/September

“Lathe-Turned Objects Hits the Mark,” The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, January 1,
by Jack Warner

“The Many Ways of Turning Wood Into Bowls,” The New York Times, September 1,
by Roberta Smith

“Turning Wood Into Art,” Philadelphia City Paper, Sept 8-15, by Robin Rice

“Philadelphia Craft Show Names Winners of Awards,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 2

“Bowled Over by Wood,” Daily News, July 28 Washington Post

 “You just can’t knock this wood,” The Times, January 25, by Carol Fowler

1988               

“Pushing the limits of wood turning,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept 29

“Turning Around,” Craft Arts, September/November, by Richard Raffan

“From Peter Berg, Sculpture, ‘Drawings’,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 8,
by  Victoria Donohoe

Lathe-Turned Objects: An International Exhibition Catalog

“On Galleries” Column, The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 8, by Victoria Donohoe

“Turning and Turning,” The Seattle Times, February 5-11, by Deloris Tarzan Ament

1987               

“Wood turning cuts its way in art world,” Houston Chronicle, March 26,
by Vivienne Heine

“Muckenthaler ‘Cross Grain’ exhibition opens,” Daily Star-Progress, July 28,
by Barbara Glasone

“Art Craft Alliance” Betty Tannenbaum’s News & Views, September, by Laura Scott

“Exhibit’s grainy images are a crafty summer rarity,” The Orange County Register,  August 7, by Susan Geer Designers West

1986               

“Turned-Wood Bowls,” The World & I, August, by Laura Hjerpe

“Superbowl,” Crafts, January/February

“Simple objects, complex questions,” Washington Times, August 21, by Michael Welzenbach

The American Woodturner, June

“The Art of Turned-Wood Bowls,” Siteline, Smithsonian Institution Newsletter, Winter/Spring

1985               

“Art: Shows set a hot pace before fall’s cool-down,” The Arizona Republic, December 29, by E.TJ. Montini

“ASU art director ecstatic over exhibit of wooden bowls,”
Chandler Arizonian, April 28, by Bruce Trethewy

“ASU art director ecstatic over exhibit of wooden bowls,” The Tempe Daily News, April 28, by Bruce Trethewy

“The Best and Worst of ‘85,” The Phoenix Gazette, December 28

“Crafted To An Artistic Turn,” The Arizona Republic, April 28, by E.J. Montini

The Morning Union, Weekend, June 21

1984               

Sierra Star, Summer Fun Supplement

1983               

“Wood exhibit at IUP,” Tribune-Democrat, February 20

“Beyond the Bowl-Turned Vessels in Wood,”
Cartwright Street Gallery Publication

“Wood workshop at Kipp Gallery,” Indiana Gazette, February 23

“Woodturning: an expressive art,” Indiana Gazette, April 13, by Carolyn Vivaldi

“Wood From the Heart,” Boston Globe, April, by Christine Temin

1982               

“The Turned Bowl,” Fine Wood Working, January/February,
by John Kelsey

“Wooden art: Natural material with plenty of soul,”
The Miami Herald, June 11, by Helen Kohen

1981               

“Turned Objects: Wood-be art form,” Welcome, September 30,
by Kristine Obakken

“Woodturning: The 1981 Turned Objects Show,” Philadelphia Gallery Guide, September

“As the Wood Turns,” South St. Star, October 1, by Susan Reed

“Wood-turned Objects At Works and Kagen Galleries,” South St. Star, September 17

“Turning: Rare art,” The Bulletin, October 4, by Kris Osbakken

“The crafts fair no devotee dares to miss,”
The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 5, by Victoria Donohoe

“Popular European prints offer a host of plain pleasures,”
The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 13, by Victoria Donohoe

“Beside major shows, a lush forest of small exhibits,”
Philadelphia Inquirer, September 4, by Victoria Donohoe

“The best of the best exhibit in woodworking show,”
The ADVANCE of Bucks County, September 10

“College to conduct wood program,” New Hope Gazette, September 10

“Woodturners to display craftsmanship,” Today’s Spirit, September 11

“Woodworkers at BCCC,” Lansdale Reporter, September 9

“Woodworkers to converge on BCCC this weekend,” Quakertown The Free Press,
September 9

“Woodworkers meet at BCCC for symposium,”
Daily Intelligence, Sept. 10

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS:
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“Shy Boy, She Devil & Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from the Wornick Collection,”
       Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

“Celebrating Contemporary Craft: Ceramics, Glass. * Wood from the
       David & Nancy Wolf Collection,” Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

“Transforming Vision, The Wood Sculpture of William Hunter 1970 – 2005,”

     Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

     Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

     Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL

     Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA

     Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

“Our Turn Now: Artists Speak Out in Wood,” Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH
     Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY

“Nature Transformed: The Bohlen Collection,” Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL

“Handily Hewn ‘Old Friends – New Gifts’,” Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
     University of Michigan Museum of Art

“Celebrating Nature: Craft Traditions/Contemporary Expressions”,
     Los Angeles Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles., CA

“Masters of Their Craft,” Highlights from the Smithsonian Art Museum

“Into the Woods,” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

Yale University Art Gallery, Minneapolis

American Craft Museum, New York, NY.  Defining Craft.

World Forestry Center, Portland, OR.  Lipton Collection

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Saxe Collection

Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AR.  Horn Collection

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Irv & Mary Lipton Collection.

Mint Museum of Craft &Design, Charlotte, NC, Jane & Arthur Mason Collection

Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI, Robert Bowlen Collection

McAllen International Museum, McAllen, TX, Wornick Collection

The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, Wornick Collection

American Crafts Museum, Wornick Collection

25th Anniversary of the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL

Tifton Museum of Art, Tifton, GA

Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY

American Craft Museum, New York, NY

Arizona State University Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, AZ

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

Triton Museum, CA

Cartwright Museum, British Columbia, Canada

Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles,

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

Renwick Gallery,  Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN

Nueberger Museum of Art, NY

Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, WI

Arkansas Decorative Art Center, AR

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI

Dowse Art Museum, New Zealand

Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage Alaska

Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, Wausau, WI

Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, NC

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT

Philip & Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA

Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum, Logan, KS

Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL

Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, MI

California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA

Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA

The Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AR

Hagley Museum, Wilmington, DE

California Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA

James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

Woodmere Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX


Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, Canada