Untitled

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Untitled
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, IL, Normal
Accession Number: 
2010.4.22
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 65 cm, W: 33.8 cm, D: 21.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
2008
Credit Line: 
Gift of Lani McGregor and Daniel Schwoerer
Web Description: 
Africano is a painter who began to make glass sculptures in the 1980s. All of these sculptures are based on studies of his wife, Rebecca. The female figure, half-dressed, reveals herself to us in her partial nudity, but her emotions are hidden, cloaked perhaps by the yards of fabric that form her full skirt. She is not positioned squarely in the center of her base, but appears, perhaps a little hesitantly, at one end. Her stance is somewhat defensive, and she seems about to move away, yet something draws her to stay within the viewer’s gaze.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Schwoerer, Dan, Source
2010-05-10
McGregor, Lani, Source
2010-05-10
Category: 
Contemporary
Color: 
colorless
Greenish Amber
Technique: 
casting
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
NA
signature
: 
Engraved On back of step figure stands on
Copyright: 
© Nicolas Africano

Description

Primary Description: 
Colorless and translucent greenish-amber glass; cast, cut, ground and polished. Sculpture in the form of woman with nude torso, wearing a long billowing skirt.

Publications (5)

The Corning Museum of Glass: Notable Acquisitions 2010 (2011) illustrated, p. 64, #45; BIB# AI86878
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2010 (2011) illustrated, p. 30; BIB# AI90243
The Gather (2011) illustrated, p. 7;
Contemporary Gallery Reinstalled (2011) illustrated, p. 7; BIB# AI88808
Recent Important Acquisitions (New Glass Review 32) (2011) illustrated, p. 98, left; BIB# AI95695