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Sick as a Dog

Artist Daniel Owen Dailey (American, born 1947)

Date1984

DimensionsH: 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm); W: 18 in. (45.7 cm); Depth: 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm)

MediumVitrolite glass, aluminum, and nickel-plated brass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dorothy and George Saxe

Object number

1991.92

Not on View

Label TextThe husband-and-wife team of Michael (1908–1999) and Frances Higgins were known for their glass enamel tableware in which they welcomed “controlled accidents” during the forming of the object. During the later 1950s Frances produced sensitive and innovative vessels like this one with granules of fused colorless glass that mimicked fractured ice. By leaving the top edge of this simple, tapered vessel irregular and the upper half of the vase intermittently punctured, she heightened the visual effect of granulated ice in the process of melting.Published ReferencesDonohoe, Victoria, "Major Exhibit in Glass Honors a Native," The Philadelphia Inquirer, Mar. 6, 1987, p. 2 (ill.).

Kehlmann, Robert, "Glass of the 80's: Collectors George and Dorothy Saxe Document a Decade," American Craft 47, 2 (Apr.-May 1987), p. 37.

"The Saxe Collection in N.Y. City," Neues Glas 2 (1987), p. 105 (ill.).

Raymond, Nolo, "Reviews in Brief," Art Matters (Apr. 1987), p. 2 (ill.).

Sozanski, Edward, "On Galleries: A Museum's Latest Offerings Balance Art, Craft and Function," The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 14, 1987, p. 5C (ill.).

Klein, Dan, Glass: A Contemporary Art (New York, 1989), p. 72 (ill.).

Rapone, Joe, ed., Dan Dailey, New York, Abrams, 2007, repr. (col.) p. 80-81.

Page, Jutta-Annette, Peter Morrin, and Robert Bell, Color Ignited: Glass 1962-2012, Toledo, OH, 2012, repr. (col.) p.59, pl. 29, p. 63.

Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, Kurland/Summers Gallery, Dan Dailey, 1985.

Oakland, California, The Oakland Museum, Contemporary American and European Glass from the Saxe Collection (exh. cat., p. 32, ill.) (traveled to New York, American Craft Museum), 1986-1987.

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts, The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Dan Dailey: Simple Complexities in Drawing and Glass 1972-1987 (exh. cat., pp. 10, 33, 61) (traveled to Washington, D.C., Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution).

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. 11, p. 36, cat. no. 19, p. 193-194.