Purple Walker (from the Walker series)

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Purple Walker (from the Walker series)

Artist Jack Schmidt (American, born 1945)

Date1988

Dimensions58 1/8 x 12 x 9 in.

MediumPlate glass, stainless steel, and slate

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dorothy and George Saxe

Object number

1991.134

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Label TextWhen you look at glass, sometimes it’s like staring into the deep blue sea; sometimes it’s like staring into the outer atmosphere of the planet. It’s full of life. —Jack Schmidt Toledo-based sculptor Jack Schmidt has been combining metal and glass in his sculptures since the mid-1970s. He initially preferred stainless steel because he felt that it and glass “share similar characteristics” as materials that respond in particular ways to light.Exhibition HistoryLathrup Village, Michigan, Habatat Galleries, Jack Schmidt, 1988.

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. 48, p. 76, cat. no. 91, p. 205.