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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Blocks
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
84.4.40
Dimensions: 
H: 182.5 cm, W(max): 90.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1983
Credit Line: 
Gift of Anne and Ronald Abramson
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass, ochre polyvinyl, black base, polyvinyl; layered safety glass, sandblasted, heat-treated and vacu-formed polyvinyl. Tall panel of two sandblasted layers of safety glass with linear negative drawing of a life-size female dressed in a bathing suit, submerged in water, her head and flowing hair bent to the side, resting on it is a three-dimensional "block" of polyvinyl emerging from the glass and giving the impression of weighing her down; panel sits on a horizontal painted wooden base and is displayed leaning at a slight angle against a wall; inscribed: "Bonnie/Biggs/1983".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Abramson, Anne, Source
1984-06-06
Abramson, Ronald, Source
1984-06-06
Color: 
Colorless, ochre, black
colorless
ocher
Technique: 
layered safety glass, sandblasted, heat-treated
sandblasting
Inscription: 
Bonnie/Biggs/1983
signature
Copyright: 
© Bonnie Biggs

Exhibitions (1)

Title Unknown (Helen Shlien Gallery)
Venue(s)
Helen Shlien Gallery 1983-09-07 through 1983-10-01

Publications (3)

Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 223; BIB# 32803
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1984 (1985) illustrated, pp. 7, 17; BIB# AI96385
Recent Important Acquisitions, 27 (1985) illustrated, p. 110, #45; BIB# AI15253