Still Life with Two Plums

Still Life with Two Plums

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Still Life with Two Plums
Department
Modern
Category
Contemporary
Place Made: 
United States, WA, Seattle
Date: 
2000
Color
AAT
green
Technique
AAT
carving
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 69.5 cm, Bowl Diam: 116.7 cm
Accession Number: 
2002.4.2
Credit Line: 
Gift in part of the artists
Location: 
On Display
Description
Green and red glass, blown; glass powders; carved, painted alderwood; assembled. Oversized alder wood "fruit" bowl containing eight giant, hand-blown fruits colored with crushed glass powders. The fruits include a pear, an unripe apple, an Italian prune plum, a lemon, a tangelo, a red apple, a greengage plum, and a peach.
Label Text
This still life, with its outsize scale, is meant to heighten our awareness of the world around us, including our dependence on nature and its cycles and seasons.– Joey Kirkpatrick The fruits in this Still Life include a pear, an unripe apple, an Italian prune plum, a lemon, a tangelo, a red apple, a greengage plum, and a peach. The technique used by the artists to make the glass fruits is unique. As in painting, they build layers of color on their glass forms by sifting colored glass powders onto the hot glass during the blowing process. This enables them to create realistic colors and textures. This enables them to create realistic colors and textures. All of the art works that you see in this area are representational: they depict things that we recognize, such as a bowl of fruit, a wild cat, and a table piled with glassware.
Inscription
Joey Kirkpatrick / Flora C. Mace / 1999
a) Bowl Signature and Date
:
Joey Kirkpatrick / Flora C. Mace / 823 Yale Ave N. / Seattle, WA 98109
b) Apple Signature and Date
:
Joey Kirkpatrick / Flora C. Mace / 1999
c) Peach Signature and Date
:
Joey Kirkpatrick / Flora C. Mace / 823 Yale Ave N. / Seattle, WA 98109
e) Green Plum Signature
:
Flora C. Mace / Joey Kirkpatrick
f) Lemon Signature
:
Joey Kirkpatrick / Flora C. Mace / 2000
h) Ital Prune Plum Sig/Date
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Provenance
Mace, Flora C. ((American, b. 1949)), Source
2002
Kirkpatrick, Joey ((American, b. 1952)), Source
2002
Recent Important Acquisitions, 45 (2003) illustrated, p. 229, fig. 60;
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2002 (2003) illustrated, p. 15;

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