vase

Object NameVase with Woman Tending a Goose and Chickens

Series

Twenty-Seven Artists in Crystal

Designer Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942)

Designer George Thompson (American, 1913-1981)

Maker Steuben Glass, Inc. (1903-)

Made FromLead Glass

Date1939

Place MadeUnited States, NY, Corning

TechniqueMold-blown, engraved

SizeOverall H: 35.3 cm; Rim Diam: 21.2 cm

Accession Number89.4.33

Credit LineGift of Harry W. and Mary M. Anderson in memory of Carl G. and Borghild M. Anderson and Paul E. and Louise Wheeler

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

Glass and Glamour: Steuben's Modern Moment, 1930-1960

Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables

Grant Wood's Studio: Birthplace of American Gothic

Grant Wood: The 5 Turner Alley Studio Years

Corning Glass Center 2000/Steuben Exhibition

Not On View

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

Grant Wood was a Midwestern painter whose work focused on rural and historic American subjects. He is best known for his 1930 painting American Gothic, now housed in The Art Institute of Chicago, which depicts a farmer, holding a pitchfork, and his wife in front of an old, Victorian-style farmhouse.

Physical DescriptionVase with Woman Tending a Goose and Chickens, "Twenty-Seven Artists in Crystal" series. Colorless lead glass; blown, engraved. Tall cylindrical vessel flared out slightly near lipless, fire-polished rim; one side of vessel engraved with barnyard scene of female figure with topknot and long aproned dress holding a bowl of grain in left hand and feeding a goose with her right, three chickens stand at her feet on ground suggested by an island of small punties encircled by a band; figure flanked on both sides by suggestion of foliage; flattened base of vessel attached to broad, shallow domed base with ground and polished edge; polished pontil; inscribed in script on polished pontil: "Steuben 1945"; replica of artist's signature at lower right corner of design: "Grant Wood".
Provenance

Source Harry W. Anderson

Source Mary M. Anderson