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Artist Mark Tobey (American, 1890-1976)

Date1974

DimensionsH: 15 in. (38.1 cm); W: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm); Diam: 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm)

MediumCast glass with applied colored glass trailings

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dorothy and George Saxe

Object number

1991.116

Not on View

Published ReferencesMaddaloni, Vincenzo, "Soffia nel vetro i capolavori," Famiglia Cristiana, Nov. 10, 1974, p. 86 (ill.).

della Corte, Carlo, Fucina degli Angeli Venezia, Venice, 1979, (ill.).

Oldknow, Tina, Pilchuck: A Glass School, Seattle, 1996, p. 40, repr. (col.).

Lynn, Martha Drexler, American Studio Glass, 1960-1990, New York, Hudson Hills, 2004, repr. (col.) p. 73.

Exhibition HistoryBrindisi, Italy, Rotary Club Comune Provincia Camera di Commercio, Sculpture in Vetro, E. Constantini, 1976 (exh. brochure).

Seattle, Foster/White Gallery, Mark Tobey, New Acquisitions, 1982.

New York, American Craft Museum, Approaches to Collecting, 1982-1983.

Oakland, California, The Oakland Museum; New York, American Craft Museum, Contemporary American and European Glass from the Saxe Collection, 1986-1987 (exh. cat., p. 38, ill.).

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. 52, p. 80, cat. no. 110, p. 208.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Viva vetro! Glass alive!: Venice and America, May 12-September 16, 2007, pl. 42, p. 93 (col.).