Color Field

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Color Field
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, CA, Escondido
Accession Number: 
2012.4.164
Dimensions: 
Overall H: about 79 cm, W: about 45.5 cm, D: about 51 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1997
Credit Line: 
Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser
Primary Description: 
Sculpture, "Color Field". Colorless float glass, multicolored paint, mixed media; cut, painted, assembled. Eleven plate glass houses assembled atop one another with silicone. Houses are decorated with splashes of paint, glued bits of glass, and a shell. Surface is matte.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Greenberg, Daniel, Source
2012-12-31
Steinhauser, Susan, Source
2012-12-31
Maurine Littleton Gallery, Former Collection
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
colorless
multicolored
Technique: 
cutting
painting
assembling
Material: 
float glass
paint
mixed media
Inscription: 
30
inscription
: 
Crayon on one house in black
80
inscription
: 
Crayon on one house in black
Copyright: 
© Therman Statom

Publications (3)

Recent Important Acquisitions (New Glass Review 34) (2013) illustrated, p. 124, top; BIB# AI95680
Contemporary Glass from the Collection of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser (2013) illustrated, p. 16, bottom right; BIB# AI94038
Contemporary Glass Sculpture: the Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser collection (2012) illustrated, p. 103 (bottom); BIB# 146109