Spaceman

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Spaceman
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
84.3.3
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 27.4 cm, W: 30.5 cm, Diam (max): 26.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1960
Web Description: 
The Italian painter Gio Colucci moved to Paris in the 1920s, where he worked in a style inspired by Expressionism, Cubism, and Futurism. He also experimented with making sculpture in different materials, including ceramic and glass.
Provenance: 
Tomkinson, Leonard, Source
1984-01-23
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass with multicolor painted decoration. Spherical shape, with striped (pink/green/white/gold/yellow/blue/gray) decoration, hemispherical protrusions on opposite sides, four hemispherical feet.
Color Ignited: Glass 1962-2012
Venue(s)
Toledo Museum of Art 2012-06-14 through 2012-09-09
The Museum is renowned for its extensive glass collection and for being the site of the historic 1962 Toledo Workshops. Those workshops, led by Harvey Littleton at the invitation of then-Museum Director Otto Wittmann, nurtured the artists now considered pioneers of the American Studio Art Glass movement and, through extension, helped to rejuvenate studio glass in post-war Europe. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the birth of studio glass, TMA presents Color Ignited: Glass 1962–2012, an enticing “coming of age” look at the medium. International in scope, it showcases works by Toledo Workshops participants as well as by the major artists working in the medium since. The exhibition focuses on the role of color—from the conceptual to the political to the metaphoric—in artistic expression. More than 80 objects from private collections, galleries, other museums and TMA’s own collection are shown, including works by Littleton, Dominick Labino, Marvin Lipofsky, Dale Chihuly, Dan Dailey, Judith Schaechter, Ginny Ruffner, Fritz Driesbach and Klaus Moje. Jutta-Annette Page, curator of glass and decorative arts at the Toledo Museum of Art, and Peter Morrin, director emeritus of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., curated the exhibition. Many of the Toledo Workshop participants were schooled in pottery, and as a result, many early works were vessels, some stylized, some with rays of color, some opaque and some transparent. There are vessels by Tom McGauchlin and Edith Franklin from the original workshops, as well as fused glass, neon glass, mirrored pieces and sculptures. Color Ignited is the inaugural exhibition in the Museum’s new Frederic and Mary Wolfe Gallery of Contemporary Art. The Wolfe Gallery space was the home of the Museum’s glass collection until 2003, when construction began on the Museum’s Glass Pavilion. A fully illustrated exhibition catalogue, with essays by Page, Morrin and Robert Bell, senior curator of decorative arts and design at the National Gallery of Australia, will be available in the Museum Store.
Contemporary Glass Vessels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2015) illustrated, p. 43, 54-55 (fig. 96, plate 4); BIB# 149403
Color Ignited: Glass 1962-2012 (2012) illustrated, p. 21, plate 6; p. 182; BIB# 130144
Jurors' Choice (New Glass Review 32) (2011) illustrated, p. 83, bottom; BIB# AI95693
Jurors' Choice (2006) illustrated, p. 82; BIB# AI86112
Recent Important Acquisitions, 27 (1985) illustrated, pp. 108-109, #42; BIB# AI15253
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1984 (1985) illustrated, pp. 6, 14; BIB# AI96385