Turkish Delight

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Object Name: 
Stained Glass Panel
Title: 
Turkish Delight
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Brooklyn
Accession Number: 
87.4.18
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 82.6 cm, W: 43.7 cm, Th: 1 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1972
Credit Line: 
Gift of the artist
Web Description: 
In the 1950s, Robert Sowers introduced the influential modernist work of German stained glass artists, such as Ludwig Schaffrath, to an American audience. It was the Germans who freed stained glass from architecture, creating what they called "autonomous panels" that could be viewed like paintings. This paved the way in the United States for artists such as Sowers, and later Robert Kehlmann, to experiment with abstraction in stained glass.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Sowers, Robert (American, 1923-1990), Source
1986-11-20
Category: 
Contemporary
Studio Glass
Color: 
Reds, purples, blues, amber
bluelines
Technique: 
cut, leaded, assembled
leading
cut glass

Description

Primary Description: 
Transparent deep reds, purples, blues, intermittent amber, colorless non-lead glasses, lead, bronze frame; cut, leaded. Vertical, rectangle; narrow panel divided into almost symmetrical pattern of squares and rectangles flanking a central vertical axis; jewels and small circular shapes are scattered throughout pattern; unsigned.

Exhibitions (1)

Robert Sowers: Stained Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Crafts Council 1975-01-17 through 1975-03-02

Publications (5)

Contemporary Glass Sculptures and Panels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2008) illustrated, p. 16, 62-63 (fig. 22, plate 7); BIB# 107478
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, pp. 94-95; BIB# 32803
Recent Important Acquisitions, 30 (1988) illustrated, p. 113, #33; BIB# AI20606
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1987 (1988) p. 5; BIB# AI96382
Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987, from the Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass (1987) p. 5; BIB# 2318