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The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (r) is a structured vocabulary for generic concepts related to art and architecture. It was developed by The Getty Research Institute to help research institutions become consistent in the terminology they use.Learn More
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Primary Description:
Colorless, several shades of transparent green, transparent amber, translucent white (some amber striations), opalescent, iridized gold, gold mirror? (Some descriptions say this is gold leaf sandwiched between colorless) non-lead glass (window, some antique), zinc and/or possibly brass cane, possibly gold leaf; cut, assembled, possibly some patination on cane. Vertical rectangular window with symmetric abstract geometric design depicting three stylized trees or plants reduced to a grid of straight lines (cane is raised V-shaped) and small panes of colored glass on a background of colorless; format subdivided into three, almost identical vertical rectangles, in turn subdivided into "foliage", "trunk" and "root" sections (these subdividing the entire space into three unequal horizontal rectangles); "foliage" occupies slightly more than the top third of window and is comprised of three vertical rectangles formed of pairs of diagonal lines meeting to form rows of "V" "branches", ends of diagonals have "leaves" of small triangles of green glass, then small vertical rows of small square blocks of green and amber alternating with colorless; main portion of window is colorless divided by cane into three vertical rectangular sections each in turn bisected by three narrow parallel "trunk" lines; "roots" are represented by row of three large lightly gold-iridized squares at base surrounded by grid and regularly spaced small squares; wider metal framing (came) around six larger rectangles at top and three large squares at base; non-original wooden frame painted dark gray.
Exhibitions (1)

Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage, Decorative Designs from the Domino's Pizza Collection
Venue(s)
Seattle Art Museum 1990-03 through 1990-06
Chicago Historical Society 1990-07 through 1990-09
Albright-Knox Gallery 1990-10 through 1991-01
Denver Art Museum 1991-01 through 1991-05
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1991-05 through 1991-07
Dallas Museum of Art 1991-08 through 1992-01
Pennsylvania Museum of Art 1991-08 through 1992-01
American Craft Museum
Publications (11)
Contemporary Glass Sculptures and Panels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2008)
illustrated, p. 16 (fig. 24);
BIB# 107478
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 146;
BIB# 68214
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000)
illustrated, p. 66, #106;
BIB# 65446
Frank Lloyd Wright : Preserving an Architectural Heritage : Decorative Designs from the Domino's Pizza Collection (1989)
pp. 12, 55, ill.;
BIB# 25210
The Stained Glass Panels of Frank Lloyd Wright (1968-11)
pp. 34-35;
Multimedia (1)

Cutting Glass
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