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Artist Frances Stewart Higgins (American, 1912-2004)

Date1994

Dimensions31 1/2 × 28 1/2 × 1/4 in. (80 × 72.4 × 0.6 cm)

MediumPolychrome translucent plate glass; cut and fused in a kiln, copper rings fused into the glass, assembled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Tom Marino

Object number

2016.211

Not on View

DescriptionThe mobile consists of about 27 pieces of fused flat glass in primary colors cut into geometric shapes, primarily disks and lozenge shapes. Many of these shapes are decorated with central dots resulting in the appearance of stylized eyes. The glass components are suspended from integrated copper rings that allow them to be suspended from copper wire bars that allow the shapes to move even in a gentle draft of air.

Published ReferencesJohnson, Donald-Brian, and Leslie Pine. Higgins: Poetry in Glass, Atglen, Pennsylvania, Schiffer Publishing, 2005.

Johnson, Donald-Brian, and Leslie A. Piña. Higgins: Adventures in Glass, Atglen, Pennsylvania, Schiffer Publishing, 1997.

Oral History Interview with Frances Higgins, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, 2003.

http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-frances-higgins-12151 Koplos, Janet and Bruce Metcalf. A Little Glass, ”Makers: a History of American Studio Craft, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2010. p. 254.

Higgins Glass Studio: Handcrafted Glass Art. “History” http://www.higginsglass.com

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Hot Spot: Contemporary Glass from Private Collections, April 15-Sept. 18, 2016.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum, Fired Up: Women in Glass, Oct. 22, 2016-Feb. 26, 2017.