Heavenly Form

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Heavenly Form
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
80.4.54
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 25.3 cm, W: 15.5 cm, L: 25.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1980
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts
Primary Description: 
Colorless, blue-gray tinted and opal glass; slumped, cemented; metal wire. Slumped opal glass sculptural ribbon-shaped form draped over six metal wire 'supports', cemented to the base, inside a glass box with colorless glass front, top and side panes and blue-gray tinted rear pane and base, cemented.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Contemporary Art Glass Group Gallery, Former Collection
1980
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
Colorless, blue-gray tint, opal
colorless
Technique: 
slumped, cemented, metal wire
Copyright: 
© Sydney Cash

Publications (4)

Modern and contemporary art glass (2006) illustrated, slide 81; BIB# 130418
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 90; BIB# 32803
Recent Important Acquisitions, 23 (1981) illustrated, p. 103, #47; BIB# AI98083
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1980 (1981) p. 7; BIB# AI97142