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Object NameSculpture

Artist Doug Anderson (American, b. 1953)

Made FromLead Glass

Date1986

Place MadeUnited States, OH, Warsaw

TechniqueCast (lost wax), pate de verre

SizeOverall H: 9.5 cm, W: 37 cm, L: 75 cm

Accession Number86.4.98

Credit Line1st Rakow Commission, purchased with funds from the Juliette K. and Leonard S. Rakow Endowment Fund

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Particle Theories: International Pate de Verre and Other Cast Glass Granulations

Not On View

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

In the mid 1980s, this piece was one of the largest and most complex examples of pâte de verre sculpture that had ever been attempted. Doug Anderson modeled the individual elements of this sculpture, which includes leaves and insects, from life. Pâte de verre (literally "glass paste") is a casting technique in which granulated glass (frit) is heated and fused inside of a kiln. Pâte de verre is easily recognized by its typically "sugary" surface and subtle, yet distinct and often complicated, coloration.

Physical DescriptionMulticolored pastel lead glass; cast (lost wax), pate de verre. Irregular rectangle; one solid piece of glass with deep undercut, depicting a pile of ivy leaves from which various life-sized elements emerge (vine, garden snake, morel mushrooms, white cap mushrooms, one peanut, two acorns, two strawberries, one button, cicada, one horsefly, rocks, black-eyed Susans, pine cone, two feathers, one apple leaf); coloration provided by gradations within glass (rather than surface applications on colorless); inscribed "Anderson 092486".
Provenance

Former Collection Doug Anderson (American, b. 1953) - 1986-1986

Source Dr. Leonard S. Rakow - 1986

Source Estate of Juliette K. (Mrs. Leonard S.) Rakow (d. 1992) - 1986