First Doll Portrait / The Chinaman
Artist: Flora Mace (American, born 1949)
Artist: Joey Kirkpatrick (American, born 1952)
Date: 1980
Dimensions:
10 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.
Medium: Glass, blown, glass threads, wire
Place of Origin: Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy and George Saxe
Object number: 1991.99
Label Text:Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick met in 1979 Pilchuck Glass Center, where they were introduced to each other by glass superstar Dale Chihuly, Pilchuck’s founder. First Doll Portrait / The Chinaman, with its depiction of an antique “character” doll of a stereotyped Chinese man, was made at Pilchuck. Mace and Kirkpatrick did a series of cylinders with such antique dolls and other figures. Kirkpatrick was trained as a painter and Mace was a sculptor who had worked with Chihuly since 1975. According to art historian Tina Oldknow, “The two artists immediately began experimenting with ways to translate Kirkpatrick’s images into glass.” Here the image is created by “painting” with colored glass threads that are then marvered (rolled on a flat surface) into the heated glass surface of the vessel.
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