Glass Form 1968 - Y (Environment)

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Glass Form 1968 - Y (Environment)

Artist Marvin Lipofsky (American, 1938 - 2016)

Place of OriginAmerica

Date1968

Dimensions11 × 11 × 5 in. (27.9 × 27.9 × 12.7 cm)

Mediumglass, rayon flocking mounted on rayon flocked plywood box

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of the Marvin Lipofsky Studio

Object number

2024.39

Not on View

DescriptionBlown glass Abstract, organic glass sculpture with purple and red flocking nestled into a plywood box with purple flocking. In the top right corner is a capital letter "Y" in serif font. The box has been made to exactly hold the glass object.

Published ReferencesBaizerman, Suzanne, ed, Marvin Lipofsky: A Glass Odyssey, Oakland, California, Oakland Museum of Art, 2003, p. 12. c.f. Bokhour, Jeannette. “2009 Lipofsky Lecture.” YouTube Video, 26:33. September 20, 2022. Original recording June 11, 2009. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Xp3bXfm_c&t=21s.