Amphora: Western Civilization

Title: 
Amphora: Western Civilization

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Object Name: 
Amphora
Title: 
Amphora: Western Civilization
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, CA, Oakland
Accession Number: 
2009.4.41
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 46.7 cm, Diam (max): 26.5 cm, W: 29 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
2002
Credit Line: 
© Artists’ Legacy Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York (www.artistslegacyfoundation.org)
Web Description: 
A studio ceramics pioneer, Frey is best known for her colossal painted clay figures that weigh thousands of pounds and often stand over 10 feet high. Using thick, gaudy glazes and china paints associated with hobbyists, she developed a deliberately unrefined style. In her drawings, Frey often depicts embattled figures. At the end of her career, she produced huge painted doubled-handled vessels (amphoras ) with imagery inspired by Wedgwood ceramics and ancient Greek vases. Her glass amphoras are related to this late work.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Series: 
Fighting Men Series I
Provenance: 
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Inc., Source

Description

Primary Description: 
Cobalt blue and colorless glass; blown and cased; Paradise glass paints, applied. Open-mouthed vessel with applied rim. Slightly elongated body with two handles at the neck Some air bubbles in the glass. The paintings were made cold on an oval-shaped cobalt glass bubble. Afterward, the glass bubble was gradually reheated then cased, blown, and tooled into its final shape.

Publications (5)

Contemporary Glass Vessels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2015) illustrated, p. 44, 176-177 (fig. 99, plate 65); BIB# 149403
The Corning Museum of Glass: Notable Acquisitions 2009 (2010) illustrated, p. 61, #42; BIB# AI79879
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2009 (2010) p. 7; BIB# AI86944
Recent Important Acquisitions (2010) illustrated, p. 103; BIB# AI79772
Viola Frey: A Lasting Legacy (2005) p. 34; BIB# 109844