13 Crows

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
13 Crows
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Japan, Chubu, Aichi, Seto
Accession Number: 
2004.6.3
Dimensions: 
Each Crow H: 13.5 cm, L (excluding wire): 48.4 cm; Hanging Gridwork W: 182.9 cm, D: 182.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
2002
Primary Description: 
Transparent light grey glass; cast, applied pigment; assembled, paper, glue, and wire. 13 cast glass crows. The bodies are wrapped and glued, mummy-like, with newsprint ripped from the front pages of a Japanese newspaper. The crows are hung upside down, suspended by their tails from a twisted wire.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Reynolds Gallery, Source
2004-02-17
Color: 
gray
Technique: 
assembling
casting
Material: 
glass
newsprint
glue
steel
pigment
wire
Copyright: 
© Michael Rogers

Exhibitions (4)

Favorites From the Contemporary Glass Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery
Invisibility
Venue(s)
Reynolds Gallery
 
The Other Side of the Looking Glass: The Glass Body and Its Metaphors
Venue(s)
Turtle Bay Exploration Park
Untitled
Venue(s)
Gallery Plannet
 

Publications (2)

Breaking Ground: A Century of Craft Art in Western New York (2010) illustrated, p. 128; BIB# 112083
Contemporary Glass Sculptures and Panels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2008) illustrated, p. 35, 196-197 (fig. 67, plate 74); BIB# 107478