It's Hard to be Green

Object NameSculpture

Maker Kreg Kallenberger (American, b. 1950)

Maker University of Tulsa Studio

Made FromGlass

Date1982

Place MadeUnited States

TechniqueBlown, annealed, cut, ground, polished, epoxied

SizeH: 15 cm, L: 18.1 cm, W: 6.4 cm

Accession Number82.4.21

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical DescriptionChrome green, opal, yellow and white tinted soda lime and phosphate opal glass (from batch); blown, annealed (250 hours to room temperature), cut, ground, polished (by hand); epoxied. Irregular truncated oval shape; inner band of white surrounds hollow caused by blowing; a series of five deep cuts of increasing depth top to bottom on side below the hollow; two tubular canes epoxied into cut groove on side above the hollow; one broad flat surface smooth polished, the other, parallel side, smooth polished with raised L-shape ridge; rounded bottom with oval flat polished base; signed on base "K. Kallen/#118".
Provenance

Source Heller Gallery - 1982-06-22