Cast Form XXIV or Blenko #4

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Cast Form XXIV or Blenko #4

Artist Howard Ben Tré (American, 1949-2020)

Date1981-1982

Dimensions23 1/2 x 13 5/8 x 11 in.

MediumCast glass, copper

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dorothy and George Saxe

Object number

1993.2

Not on View

Label TextHoward Ben Tré prefers glass to remain “murky” and dense, helping him achieve a glow and pattern of imperfections that impart an intriguing timelessness. In this purely sculptural work, made during a stint at the Blenko Glass Factory in West Virginia in the 1980s, Ben Tré combines power, vulnerability, and luminescence to create a work with a spiritual dimension. As with many of Ben Tré’s works, the form and tone is drawn from Gothic cathedrals, Greek temples, and Mayan ruins, and the work has a timeless quality that invokes the forms of an imagined civilization.Published ReferencesVallongo, Sally, "Gifts of Glass: Couple's Collection Helps Art Museum to Rebuild," The Blade (Toledo), June 14, 1992, p. 1 (ill.).Exhibition HistoryToledo 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. 2, p. 23, cat. no. 7, p. 192.