Mother Daughter
Artist
Ann Wolff
(German, born 1937)
CultureGerman
Date2000
MediumAntique sheet and float glass with enamel and steel
Dimensions21 3/4 x 22 x 4 1/2 in. (55.2 x 55.9 x 11.4 cm)
SignedVerso, lower left corner: "Ann Wolff"
Inscribed"Ann Wolff"
Credit LineGift of Lisa Shaffer Anderson and Dudley Buist Anderson
Object number2009.1
Not on view
DescriptionA collage of handblown antique glass shards, painted with black fired enamel and mounted in four layers within a steel framework and stand. The collage depicts two figures; one with eyes open, the other with eyes closed.Label TextAnn Wolff German, b. 1937 Mother Daughter, 2002 Painted sheet glass collage with steel Gift of Lisa Shaffer Anderson and Dudley Buist Anderson 2009.1 German-born artist Ann Wolff discovered the medium of glass through her marriage to Swedish glass artist Göran Wärff. After she and Wärff divorced in 1971, Wolff remained in Sweden for thirty years, working collaboratively with glass artists in small studio settings and utilizing a myriad of techniques including etching, casting, and painting. Mother Daughter explores a narrative than runs throughout Wolff's work, which usually portrays one or two female figures. The two figures here may indeed be contrasting faces of the same woman as both mother and daughter. The mother, with attentive, alert eyes, is protective. The daughter rests peacefully, nurtured and relaxed. Through complex layers-some brilliant and some jagged-Wolff suggests that we, like both women, are composed of multiple parts that must be seen as a whole. ProvenanceArtist's studio, 2000; Dudley and Lisa Anderson, Wilson, N.C.; The Chrysler Museum of Art, Gift of Dudley and Lisa Anderson, Norfolk, V.A., 2009.Exhibition HistoryStudio Gallery, Transjö, Kosta, Sweden. "Women of the Chrysler: a 400-Year Celebration of the Arts," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., March 24 - July 18, 2010. "Come Together, Right Now: The Art of Gathering," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, October 11, 2020 - January 3, 2021.Published References_New Glass Review_, 31 (New York: Corning Museum of Glass, 2010): 126. Diane C. Wright (editor), _Glass Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017), pg. 184-185.
