Builder's Cube V

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Builder's Cube V
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice, Murano
Accession Number: 
2001.3.31
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 20.32 cm, W: 20.32 cm, D: 20.32 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1996
Credit Line: 
Gift of Margaret Pace Willson
Primary Description: 
Colorless, transparent red, blue, light blue and translucent yellow glass; hotworked, applied. Large cube with internal decoration of splotches of color, female figure, square, and a line with two circles on either side.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Willson, Margaret Pace, Source
2001
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
Colorless, transparent red, blue, light blue, translucent yellow
colorless
blue
light blue
Technique: 
hot-worked, applied

Exhibitions (1)

Robert Willson: A Texan in Venice
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2003-05-15 through 2003-11-09

Publications (5)

Robert Willson -- Bringing Life to Solid Glass. (2011) p. 16; BIB# AI84204
2300 Degrees salutes a Texan (2003-05-15) illustrated, p. 3D;
Notes: Corning Museum Receives Willson Gift (2002) illustrated, p. 205, fig. 2;
Robert Willson: Image-Maker (2001) p. 100; BIB# 71997
Corning Museum Receives Willson Gift (2001) illustrated, pp. 204-206, fig. 2;