Composition #55

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Composition #55

Artist Robert Kehlmann (American, born 1942)

Date1979

DimensionsH: 34 in. (86.4 cm); W: 38 7/16 in. (97.6 cm); Depth: 1 in. (2.5 cm)

MediumGlass, leaded with lead appliqués and steel

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dorothy and George Saxe

Object number

1991.97

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 2

Label TextThough constructed with traditional stained-glass techniques, Robert Kehlmann’s “windows” are more like drawings in glass. Stained-glass and other craft media experienced a revival in the United States after World War II, and Kehlmann uses this process that is often limited to architectural settings to create experiments in abstraction. Normally a structural element, he uses the lead cames to create unusual patterns which, along with his bold use of color, challenges our notions about stained glass.Exhibition HistoryWalnut Creek, CA, Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Current Trends in Glass (exh. cat.), 1980.

San Francisco, The William Sawyer Gallery, Works on Glass, 1982.

Oakland, CA, The Oakland Museum, Contemporary American and European Glass from the Saxe Collection (exh. cat., p. 35, ill.) (traveled to New York, American Craft Museum), 1986.

Toledo Museum of Art; The Saint Louis Art Museum; Newport Beach, California, Newport Harbor Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution, Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, 1993-1995, pl. 22, p. 50, cat. no. 43, p. 198.