Lord's Prayer Murrina

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Object Name:

Department

Modern

Category

Contemporary

Maker(s)

Marquis, Richard ((American, b. 1945)), Artist

California State University, Studio

Place Made:

United States, CA, Chico

Date:

1971

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red

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white

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black

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cutting

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fused

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glass

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Dimensions:

Overall H: 1.7 cm, W: 2.2 cm, L: .5 cm

Accession Number:

94.4.111 A

Credit Line:

Gift of Richard Marquis

Location:

On Display

Description

Opaque white, red, "black" glass; fused murrine cane, cut.

Label Text

In 1972, Marquis completed his master’s thesis at Berkeley with a masterpiece of murrine making: a complex word cane of the Lord’s Prayer. Marquis was familiar with the long tradition of the Lord’s Prayer in American popular culture, and as a fan of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, he knew that the prayer had been inscribed on the head of a pin. Because the pattern of the hot murrine cane can be infinitely stretched out, the words can be relatively large (that is, readable) or reduced to the size of a Ripley’s pinhead. The Museum owns several examples of Marquis’s justly famous murrine in different sizes, including a tiny piece of cane, enclosed in a cardboard holder, in which the microscopic words of the prayer fit into a space even smaller than that of a pinhead.

Provenance

Marquis, Richard ((American, b. 1945)), Former Collection

1994

Exhibitions (1)
Publications (7)
Objects In Set (2)

Exhibitions

Masters of Studio Glass: Richard Marquis

Venue(s)

Corning Museum of Glass 2013-02-16 through 2014-02-02

This exhibition is part of the Corning Museum’s ongoing Masters of Studio Glass series developed to provide a platform for in-depth surveys of artists represented in the Museum’s permanent collection.

Publications

Masters of Studio Glass: Richard Marquis (2012) illustrated, p. 6 (top, third from right);

Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (2006) illustrated, p. 58; BIB# 96551

The Techniques of Mosaic Glass, Millefiori and . . . Filligree (2001) illustrated, p. 23, #4;

The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 98, #173; BIB# 65446

Richard Marquis: Objects (1997) illustrated, p. 58; BIB# 59475

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1994 (1995) p. 19;

Cane and Murrine Decoration in 20th Century Glass (1995) illustrated, cover;

Objects In Set

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