Mother Daughter
Artist
Ann Wolff
(German, born 1937)
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)
ClassificationsGlass
Credit LineGift of Lisa Shaffer Anderson and Dudley Buist Anderson
Object number2009.1
Terms
- Women
- Blue
- Pink
- Black
- Brown
- White
- Orange
- Sweden
Collections
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Not on viewLabel 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.
