New York, New York

New York, New York

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
New York, New York
Department
Modern
Place Made: 
United States
Date: 
1984
Color
AAT
colorless
Technique
AAT
polishing
AAT
casting
AAT
cut glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 43.1 cm, W (max): 9.4 cm, D (max): 9.4 cm
Accession Number: 
87.4.2
Credit Line: 
Anonymous Gift
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Colorless, lead glass; cast, cut, polished, engraved. Vertical, four-sided, square-shaped column, with cuts at each corner creating profiles of the World Trade Center, Empire State Building, Chrysler Building and the Woolworth Building. The engraved tops of the buildings are very detailed. The designs begin one-fourth of the way from the top of the glass block and extend to the lower one-fourth, which has been cut into eight, unequal facets. Inscribed on the base "Paul Schulze" on edge of base; above it, on the side facet "Steuben". No air bubbles in the glass.
Inscription
Paul Schulze
signature
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Provenance
Anonymous Source
1987
Trial By Fire: Contemporary Glass
Venue(s)
Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts 2003-01-24 through 2003-04-30
Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04
 
American Glassmaking: The First Russian Tour
Venue(s)
Steuben Glass, Inc. 1990-01-30 through 1990-02-24
Trial By Fire: Contemporary Glass (2003) illustrated, p. 43; BIB# 74749
Hikari no shouchu: sekai no garasu = The glass (1992) p. 175, #290; BIB# 58995
Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 79, 97, pl. 134; BIB# 33046
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1987 (1988) p. 5;
Recent Important Acquisitions, 30 (1988) illustrated, p. 115, #39; BIB# AI20606

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