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Object Name5 Miniature Skulls

Maker Ann Troutner (b. 1958)

Maker Paul Marioni (American, b. 1941)

Made Fromsoda-lime glass

Date1987

Place MadeUnited States

Techniquecast in bronze mold, manipulated

SizeSee Individual Records

Accession Number87.4.65

Credit LineGift of Paul Marioni and Ann Troutner

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Title Unknown (Rourke Gallery)

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless soda-lime glass; cast in a bronze mold, removed while still molten, manipulated. Five small solid skulls cast from the same mold, then altered into varying degrees of distortion; example closest to unaltered casting is (c) depicts front of skull with eye and nose sockets, teeth and jaw, back of head is flat; (a) side of head flattened; (b) head turned on side, back extended and flattened; (d) both sides of head extended; (e) right side of head pulled up, then extended; overall mold marks; unsigned.
Provenance

Source Paul Marioni (American, b. 1941)

Source Ann Troutner (b. 1958)