Nile

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Nile
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice, Murano
Accession Number: 
97.3.25
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 7.0 cm, W: 10.2 cm, L: 72.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1996
Web Description: 
A deep connection to the natural world and the realm of the senses lies at the heart of the glass designs of Laura de Santillana (Italian, b. 1955). De Santillana treats her vessels almost architecturally by developing strong profiles and defined interior spaces. Whether working in blown glass or fused murrine (mosaic glass), her objects exhibit a sophisticated understanding of color and volume. Nile, executed in muddy greenish brown murrine tipped in white, evokes the humid, surging waters of its ancient namesake.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Elliott Brown Gallery, Source
1997-05-16
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
black
green
brown
white
Technique: 
fused
slumped
wheel carved
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
laura de Santillana / 1996
signature
: 
on bottom

Description

Primary Description: 
Transparent blackish-green with brownish striations and opaque white glass; fused, slumped, stone wheel carved. Long narrow simplistic boat shape (canoa).

Exhibitions (1)

Favorites From the Contemporary Glass Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery

Publications (3)

The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 94, #163, top; BIB# 65446
Recent Important Acquisitions, 40 (1998) illustrated, pp. 172-173, #66; BIB# AI40492
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1997 (1998) illustrated, p. 15, 29; BIB# AI95178