Ravenna Grand Jury/Masked Bandit

Title: 
Ravenna Grand Jury/Masked Bandit

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Ravenna Grand Jury/Masked Bandit
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, OH, Kent
Accession Number: 
73.4.51
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 28.1 cm, W: 37.5 cm, D: 10.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1972
Web Description: 
In May 1970, Halem was teaching at Kent State University, where he witnessed the shooting of four student protesters by the National Guard. Symbolic of blind justice, the masked face refers to the grand jury, presiding in Ravenna, Ohio, which acquitted the National Guardsmen.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Halem, Henry (American, b. 1938), Source
1973
Category: 
Contemporary
Studio Glass
Color: 
opaque white glass
Technique: 
lost-wax process
casting
Material: 
glass
Copyright: 
© Henry Halem

Description

Primary Description: 
Opaque white glass; cast, fused, lost-wax mold. Mask shape, depicting grotesque man's face; eyes concealed by a second piece of glass; undulating coarse back surface.

Exhibitions (4)

Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
State Hermitage Museum 1990-09-15 through 1990-10-21
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04
Glassmaking: America's First Industry
Venue(s)
Strong Museum 1990-04-17 through 1990-04-29
 
Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1987-05-16 through 1987-10-25
Toledo Museum of Art 1988-01-10 through 1988-02-21
American Glass Now
Venue(s)
Toledo Museum of Art 1972 through 1972
Corning Museum of Glass 1973 through 1973
 

Publications (10)

Modern and contemporary art glass (2006) illustrated, slide 52; BIB# 130418
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, pp. 92-93, #93; BIB# 34475
Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 66, 85, 95, pl. 104; BIB# 33046
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 100; BIB# 32803
Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987, from the Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass (1987) p. 3; BIB# 2318
Self-Development (1980) illustrated, p. 61;
A Short History of Glass (1980 edition) (1980) illustrated, p.89, #90 (lower); BIB# 21161
Glassmaking: America's First Industry (1976) illustrated, p. 34, fig. 34; BIB# 28025
Recent Important Acquisitions, 16 (1974) illustrated, p. 135, #57; BIB# AI91024
American Glass Now (1972) p. 25; BIB# 18872