Bench for Claude Monod II

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Bench for Claude Monod II

Artist Howard Ben Tré (American, 1949-2020)

Date1990-1992

DimensionsEach bench) H: 19 3/8 in. (49.2 cm); W: 26 5/8 in. (67.6 cm); L: 54 in. (137.2 cm)

MediumGlass cast in sand mold with brass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1992.19A-B

Not on View

Label TextSculptor Howard Ben Tré has chosen cast glass as his primary medium of artistic expression, using it to explore the merging of organic and geometric qualities in form and decoration. He is particularly drawn to sand-casting, a process that gives an aged feeling to contemporary shapes while preserving the formal sculptural dialog between interior and exterior. Ben Tré’s sculptures are suggestive of residual creations of an imagined civilization. Commissioned for the Museum as gallery furniture (please have a seat), the benches were named for Ben Tré’s late friend, the French glass artist Claude Monod (1945–1990).Published ReferencesToledo Museum of Art, Annual Report July 1, 1991-June 30, 1992, p. 8, repr.

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Treasures, Toledo, 1995, p. 183, repr. (col.).

Page, Jutta-Annette, "News: the Glass Pavilion of the Toledo Museum of Art," New Glass Review 28, 2007, p. 102.