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Personal Archive Unit -- Granite-Ware Landscape Lamp

Artist Richard Marquis (American, born 1945)

Date1981-1984

DimensionsH: 28 in. (71.1 cm); W: 17 in. (43.2 cm); Depth: 10 in. (25.4 cm)

MediumPainted plywood, blown and fabricated glass, and found objects (including ceramics, Bakelite, enamel, photograph, light bulb, and sand).

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dorothy and George Saxe

Object number

1991.127

Not on View

Label TextOne of the first American artists to travel to Venice, Italy, to observe the centuries-old secrets of the master glassblowers on the island of Murano, Richard Marquis combines technical mastery with offbeat humor in his glass objects and assemblages. His Personal Archive Unit series presents jumbled collections of his own glass works along with found objects in an eclectic mixture of nostalgia and quirky playfulness.Published References"G.A.S. Gallery," Glass Art Society Journal, 1986, p. 97 (ill.).

Kehlmann, Robert, "Glass of the 80s," American Craft 47, 2 (Apr.-May 1987), back cover (ill.).

Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design, "Department of Decorative Arts," Museum Notes 1988, text by Thomas S. Michie (Providence, 1988), p. 27.

"Recent important acquisitions," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 34, 1992, repr. p. 147.

Exhibition HistoryChicago, The Mindscape Collection, Richard Marquis: New Works in Glass and Mixed Media (exh. announcement, ill.), 1984.

Oakland, California, The Oakland Museum, Contemporary American and European Glass from the Saxe Collection, 1986-1987 (exh. cat., p. 31, ill.) (traveled to New York, American Craft Museum).

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. 32, p. 60, cat. no. 58, p. 200.