Paul J. Karlstrom and Susan Ehrlich Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920-1956, Barry M. Heisler Introduction Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1990
Paul J. Karlstrom Modernism in Southern California, 1920-1956, Reflections on the Art and the Times
" . . . it was at the Otis Art Institute where, from 1954 to 1958, Peter Voulkos's abstract expressionist ceramics destroyed one barrier between art and craft. . . . "