Photograph provided by Claire Oliver Gallery, NYC 2020

The Florist

Artist Judith Schaechter (American, born 1961)

CultureAmerican

Date2018

MediumSandblasted, engraved, and painted flash glass with lead solder in a lightbox

Dimensions30 × 30 × 4 in. (76.2 × 76.2 × 10.2 cm)

Signed“JS” and 2018 are painted on the glass border at the lower right front corner of the composition.

Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds provided by Pat and Doug Perry, Susan and David Goode, Ashby and Joe Waldo, Carolyn and Dick Barry, Christina Goode, Shirley Baldwin, Amy and Kirk Levy, Marynell and Stephan Gordon, Virginia and John Hitch, Chrissy and Dave Johnson, Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Rowland, Alan and Jody Wagner, Anne and Lawrence Fleder, and Dr. and Mrs. James B. Sanderlin

Object number2020.2

Collections

Glass Art

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 119, Case 66

DescriptionAn illuminated lightbox made of flat panes of “flash” glass that have been cut, sandblasted, engraved, and layered. The edges of the glass sections are copper-foiled and joined with lead solder; the composition is set into a frame constructed from wood and zinc metal, while a light source hidden in the frame can be plugged into an electrical outlet to illuminate the piece. The artist’s initials “JS” and the date 2018 are painted on the glass border at the lower right front corner of the composition. The composition depicts a solitary nude figure with pinkish-red flesh and red hair, who is seated at a table and bends over the tabletop. To the left and above the figure, 30 colorless glass vases are depicted full of fantastical flowers, each vase set within its own rectangular pane of glass and separated from other panes by lead solder. The rectangular border of the composition consists of three rows of small squares of red glass.

ProvenancePurchased from Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, by the Chrysler Museum, January 2020.Exhibition History2018 Seattle Art Fair (selected for the “best of the fair” lecture by the Museum of Glass, Tacoma). “Agony & Ecstasy: Contemporary Stained Glass by Judith Schaechter,” Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, September 20, 2019 - January 5, 2020. “The Path to Paradise: Judith Schaechter’s Stained-Glass Art,” Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, NY, February 16 - May 24, 2020; the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, June 27, to October 4, 2020; the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, February 5 to May 9, 2021. Published ReferencesJessica Marten, ed. _The Path to Paradise: Judith Schaechter’s Stained-Glass Art_ (Rochester, RIT Press: 2020) pp.148-149, fig. 44.