Hammer

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Hammer
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, GA, Atlanta
Accession Number: 
82.4.75
Dimensions: 
Overall (hammer in position): 23.6 cm; Hammer L: 28.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1977
Credit Line: 
Gift of Fräbel Galleries
Primary Description: 
Sculpture, "Hammer". Colorless borosilicate glass; lampworked. Colorless hammer with series of nails, all set in a black wooden base.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Frabel Galleries, Source
1977
to
1982-12-09
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
lampworking
Material: 
borosilicate glass
wood
black
Inscription: 
1978
inscription
: 
Etched on base of hammer
GF
signature
: 
on end of handle

Exhibitions (1)

New Glass: A Worldwide Survey
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1979 through 1979
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Renwick Gallery
Toledo Museum of Art

Publications (6)

Il Vetro a Lume = Lampworking (2018) illustrated, v. 3, pp. 227 (fig. 522), 231 (fig. 524);
GLAS als Materiel der bildenden Kunst seit 1960 (2015) illustrated, p. 142;
Glas als Material der bildenden Kunst seit 1960 (2015) illustrated, p. 142; BIB# 146034
Modern and contemporary art glass (2006) illustrated, slide 67; BIB# 130418
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 165; BIB# 32803
New Glass: A Worldwide Survey (1979) illustrated, p. 83, #61; BIB# 20603