Night+Ship,+Submerged+Channel,+The+Frozen+Sea

Date: 1986
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 * Title: **Night Ship/Submerged Channel/The Frozen Sea**

Artist: **John Roloff** Born: Portland, Oregon 1947

Medium: glazed earthenware with vitreous engobe, fused silica, and wood Dimensions: 21 3/8 x 53 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (54.3 x 135.9 x 19.1 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase made possible in part by Mr. and Mrs. Fortunato Porotto and John E. Lodge

Accession: 1987.31.2 || John Roloff’s earthenware //Night Ship/Submerged Channel/The Frozen Sea// is a work from his series of sculptures that depict ships. Interest in marine geology, romantic nineteenth-century land and seascape paintings, and pieces by American Earth Work artists, spurred Roloff to create these sculptures.
 * About the Artwork: **

John Roloff makes conceptual works that reference site, process, and natural systems. He has studied with professors of geology and art. The Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco represents Rolofff. He is also a tenured Sculpture/Ceramics faculty member at the San Francisco Art Institute.
 * About the Artist: **

Anglim Gilbert Gallery - John Roloff John Roloff's website
 * Resources: **

SAAM Collections Page Artist Biography
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