> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Explore the Art and Legacy of Viola Frey, Sculptor and Painter
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/viola-frey-art-legacy-online/
- Published: 2020-04-08T20:00:30.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:22:40.000Z
- Description: Read an interview transcript, watch videos, view images from the archives, and more, presented by the Artists’ Legacy Foundation.
- Author: Artists’ Legacy Foundation
- Tags: Announcement, Artists' Legacy Foundation, Exhibition Announcement, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:41 (2019, 2020, part 2)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2020/04/alf_post_image.jpg)

Viola Frey, “Untitled (Vessel, Hand, Head)” (c. 1975-1980), ceramic with slip, 13 x 13 x 11 inches, VF-0339CSS. 2020 © Artists’ Legacy Foundation / Licensed by ARS, New York. Photograph by M. Lee Fatherree.

Over the course of her five-decade career, artist [Viola Frey](https://bit.ly/39PES7z?ref=hyperallergic.com) produced an impressive body of work, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures in bronze and glass — but is perhaps best known for ceramic sculptures. Her work is held in over 70 public collections worldwide and is a keystone in the West Coast clay scene.

To learn about Viola Frey’s art and life, you can visit any of the following online resources:

- [Viola Frey Archives](https://bit.ly/2wnrGcu?ref=hyperallergic.com) (Instagram)
- [1995 Oral History Interview](https://s.si.edu/3e9VA54?ref=hyperallergic.com) (Smithsonian Archives of American Art)
- [2010 KQED Spark video](https://bit.ly/2V8jKnO?ref=hyperallergic.com) (KQED)
- [*Viola Frey: A Personal Iconography*](https://bit.ly/2yFcVm6?ref=hyperallergic.com) (Nancy Hoffman Gallery)
- [“New to the Collection: Viola Frey, *Man and World”*](https://bit.ly/34djDeM?ref=hyperallergic.com)(Toledo Museum of Art)”

When museums re-open, visit:

- [*Monumental: The Art of Viola Frey*](https://bit.ly/2RdM7zx?ref=hyperallergic.com)  
Flint Institute of Arts (Flint, MI)
- [*Cool Clay: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Ceramics* ](https://bit.ly/2JIK9TZ?ref=hyperallergic.com)Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
- [*Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019*](https://bit.ly/39Mv2U6?ref=hyperallergic.com)  
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- [*100 Iconic Works from the Permanent Collection* ](https://bit.ly/2xbsRMv?ref=hyperallergic.com)The Baker Museum of Art, Naples, FL
- [*About Face: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture*](https://bit.ly/3dW67R8?ref=hyperallergic.com) (traveling)  
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX  
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
- [*Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale* ](https://bit.ly/2whLVIn?ref=hyperallergic.com)Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

In 2000, Viola Frey co-founded the Artists’ Legacy Foundation with painter Squeak Carnwath and community advocate Gary Knecht. She became its first Legacy Artist after her death in 2004.

**See** [**artistslegacyfoundation.org**](https://bit.ly/3aPJrzY?ref=hyperallergic.com) **for more details on the Artists’ Legacy Foundation and its stewardship of Viola Frey’s estate.**