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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
New York, New York
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
87.4.2
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 43.1 cm, W (max): 9.4 cm, D (max): 9.4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1984
Credit Line: 
Anonymous Gift
Primary Description: 
Colorless, lead glass; cast, cut, polished, engraved. Vertical, four-sided, square-shaped column, with cuts at each corner creating profiles of the World Trade Center, Empire State Building, Chrysler Building and the Woolworth Building. The engraved tops of the buildings are very detailed. The designs begin one-fourth of the way from the top of the glass block and extend to the lower one-fourth, which has been cut into eight, unequal facets. Inscribed on the base "Paul Schulze" on edge of base; above it, on the side facet "Steuben". No air bubbles in the glass.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Anonymous Source
1987
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
cast, cut, polished, engraved
polishing
casting
cut glass
Inscription: 
Paul Schulze
signature

Exhibitions (3)

Trial By Fire: Contemporary Glass
Venue(s)
Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts 2003-01-24 through 2003-04-30
Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
State Hermitage Museum 1990-09-15 through 1990-10-21
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04
 
American Glassmaking: The First Russian Tour
Venue(s)
Steuben Glass, Inc. 1990-01-30 through 1990-02-24

Publications (8)

Zart & Rau (2015) illustrated, p. 47;
Trial By Fire: Contemporary Glass (2003) illustrated, p. 43; BIB# 74749
Hikari no shouchu: sekai no garasu = The glass (1992) p. 175, #290; BIB# 58995
Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 79, 97, pl. 134; BIB# 33046
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, pp. 108-109, back cover, #124; BIB# 34475
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 157; BIB# 32803
Recent Important Acquisitions, 30 (1988) illustrated, p. 115, #39; BIB# AI20606
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1987 (1988) p. 5; BIB# AI96382