Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.

Emergence

Artist Dominick Labino (American, 1910 - 1987)

CultureAmerican

Date1976

MediumHotworked glass

Dimensions8 1/4 × 3 3/8 × 3 3/4 in. (21 × 8.6 × 9.5 cm)

SignedEtched in the glass, bottom: "Labino 12-1976"

PortfolioEmergence Series

Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds in memory of the artist, Otto Wittmann, Jr., and Margaret Wittmann

Object number2019.21.2

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 119, Case 69

DescriptionThe small sculpture is a solid mass of glass, long and narrow with a slightly squared section and a rounded top. There are two “veils” within the glass, an effect that creates slightly-opaque layers that appear to be pulled one within the other, similar to a whirlpool or tornado funnel. The pink color of the glass veils deepens as the veils nest one within the other. The thick outer layer of the sculpture is colorless glass.
Label TextDominick Labino American, 1910−87 Emergence, 1976 Hotworked glass Museum purchase with funds in memory of the artist, Otto Wittmann, Jr., and Margaret Wittmann 2019.21.2ProvenanceThe artist; Otto Wittmann, Jr.; John Wittmann (Otto's son); gifted to the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk. VA.