Finders Creepers

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Finders Creepers
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, OH, Warsaw
Accession Number: 
86.4.98
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9.5 cm, W: 37 cm, L: 75 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1986
Credit Line: 
1st Rakow Commission, purchased with funds from the Juliette K. and Leonard S. Rakow Endowment Fund
Web Description: 
In the mid 1980s, this piece was one of the largest and most complex examples of pâte de verre sculpture that had ever been attempted. Doug Anderson modeled the individual elements of this sculpture, which includes leaves and insects, from life. Pâte de verre (literally "glass paste") is a casting technique in which granulated glass (frit) is heated and fused inside of a kiln. Pâte de verre is easily recognized by its typically "sugary" surface and subtle, yet distinct and often complicated, coloration.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Anderson, Doug (American, b. 1952), Former Collection
1986
to
1986
Rakow Estate, Juliette K. (Mrs. Leonard S.) (d. 1992), Source
1986
Rakow, Leonard S., Source
1986
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
Multicolored pastels
Technique: 
pate-de-verre
Inscription: 
Anderson 092486
signature
Copyright: 
© Corning Museum of Glass

Description

Primary Description: 
Multicolored pastel lead glass; cast (lost wax), pate de verre. Irregular rectangle; one solid piece of glass with deep undercut, depicting a pile of ivy leaves from which various life-sized elements emerge (vine, garden snake, morel mushrooms, white cap mushrooms, one peanut, two acorns, two strawberries, one button, cicada, one horsefly, rocks, black-eyed Susans, pine cone, two feathers, one apple leaf); coloration provided by gradations within glass (rather than surface applications on colorless); inscribed "Anderson 092486".

Exhibitions (1)

Particle Theories: International Pate de Verre and Other Cast Glass Granulations
Venue(s)
Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village 2005-04 through 2006-01