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Object NameStained Glass Panel
Artist Robert Sowers (American, 1923-1990)
Made FromGlass, lead, bronze, wood. lead came
Date1972
TechniqueCut, leaded, assembled
SizeOverall H: 82.6 cm, W: 43.7 cm, Th: 1 cm
Accession Number87.4.18
Credit LineGift of the artist
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Robert Sowers: Stained Glass
Interpretive Notes
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.
Place Made
United States, NY, Brooklyn
Physical DescriptionTransparent 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.
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