Cheek to Cheek

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Cheek to Cheek
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, TN, Knoxville
Accession Number: 
2012.4.171
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 19.8 cm, W: 22 cm, D: 14.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1988
Credit Line: 
Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser
Primary Description: 
Sculpture, "Cheek to Cheek". Transparent bluish gray glass, black and blue trails; hot-worked, applied trails, acid-etched. Solid irregularly-shaped/bulbous sculpture. Applied black trails outline the face and hair of a man. Applied blue trails outline the face and hair of a woman. Matte surface.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Greenberg, Daniel, Source
2012-12-31
Steinhauser, Susan, Source
2012-12-31
Kurland/Summers Gallery, Former Collection
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
bluish gray
black
blue
Technique: 
hot-working
applied decoration
acid-etching
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
Richard Jolley / Cheek to Cheek / ‘88
inscription
: 
Engraved on base in script
Copyright: 
© Richard Jolley

Publications (1)

Contemporary Glass Sculpture: the Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser collection (2012) illustrated, p. 51 (bottom); BIB# 146109