About Suffering

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Object Name: 
4 Part Sculpture
Title: 
About Suffering
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, IL, Normal
Accession Number: 
2008.4.24
Dimensions: 
(a) Cylindrical Form H: 37.6 cm, Diam (max): 18.5 cm; (b) Cylindrical Form H: 36.4 cm, W: 16 cm, D: 14.2 cm; (c) Cylindrical Form H: 36.8 cm, Diam (max): 17.9 cm; (d) Cylindrical Form H: 34.2 cm, W: 17.9 cm, D: 16.1 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1997
Credit Line: 
Gift of Joel Philip Myers and Karen Birthe Eriksen Noer Myers
Primary Description: 
Colorless and translucent white glass; blown, cased, applied steel pins. Cylindrical forms, cased in translucent white glass with rounded shoulder that narrows to an off-center opening. Each form has many steel pins inserted into the sides, many are beginning to rust.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Myers, Joel Philip (American, b. 1934), Source
2008-05-05
Myers, Birthe, Source
2008-05-05
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
colorless
white
Technique: 
glassblowing
cased glass
applied decoration
Material: 
glass
steel
Inscription: 
Joel Philip Myers 1997
signature
: 
Engraved On bottom along edge of base Engraved script located on (b), (c), and (d)
Copyright: 
© Joel Philip Myers

Exhibitions (1)

Masters of Studio Glass Series: Joel Philip Myers and Steven Weinberg
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
West Bridge Exhibit

Publications (1)

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2008 (2009) illustrated, p. 18; BIB# AI94759