Golden Head

Object NameWall Painting

Maker Henry Halem (American, b. 1938)

Made Fromglass, enamels, gold leaf

Date1989

Place MadeUnited States

Techniquecut, assembled, enameled, applied metal leaf

SizeH: 84.7 cm; W: 80.4 cm; D: 10.2 cm

Accession Number90.4.21

Credit LineGift of the Snyderman Gallery

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Title Unknown (Snyderman Gallery)

Not On View

Physical DescriptionBlue-green tint plate glass, polychrome enamels, gold leaf; cut, assembled, enameled, applied metal leaf. Large square Vitrolite panel siliconed to painted wood backing; wide border almost entirely covered (except for a few areas near edges on all four sides) with pastel colored enamels, decoration designs have been inscribed through the enamel while still wet with overall stylized imagery (head, silhouette, self-portrait, stick figures, vessels, eye, clock faces, pyramids, dog, architecture, lettering); mounted central smaller square with black and white striped outline and 1" wide copper moiré patterned metal border surrounding enameled surface of blended bands of light blue, yellow, and pink; towards bottom of inset square a small shelf of unpainted thick plate glass juts out and supports a stylized cut-out head silhouette also of thick plate glass with exterior surface covered with the golden patterned metal, small plate glass strut connects back of head to panel; inscribed in script through wet enamel at lower right corner: "H. Halem 89".
Provenance

Source Snyderman Gallery - 1990-07-10