Study Module for Owens Corning Lobby Entrance
Study Module for Owens Corning Lobby Entrance
Artist
Thomas Patti
(American, b. 1943)
Date1994-1996
DimensionsH: 11 ½ in.; L: 19 1/2 in.; Depth: 2 ¼ in.
MediumColorless and transparent blue glass and red glass fiber, fused, hot-formed.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Ann and Glen Hiner
Object number
2013.184
Not on View
DescriptionRectangular glass block composed of a fused grid of commercial colorless and colored float glass with a composite of treated, colorized and fused glass fiber products. While the front’s fire-polished flat and smooth surface provides a view into the fiber-like pattern of colored glass threads, the back retains the three-dimensional grid structure of the fused panels with a rough, textured surface imparted by the mold. The block is set into a frame of brushed steel bands supported by a welded-on stand of two parallel, circular rods.
Published ReferencesCf. Miro, Marsha, "Public Glass: Tom Patti in Toledo," Glass, no. 67, Summer 1997, pp. 40-43.
Warmus, William, Tom Patti: Illuminating the Invisible, Tacoma, WA, Univ. of Washington Press, 2004, p. 45.
Before 1880
18th-19th century
Mid- to late 4th century CE
c. 90 CE
Late 2nd or 1st century BCE
Libbey Glass Company, an operating division of Owens-Illinois Glass Company
early 1980s
Libbey Glass Company, an operating division of Owens-Illinois Glass Company
1937-1938
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