Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2022.

Half Empty / Half Full

Artist Koichiro Yamamoto (Japanese, born 1969)

CultureJapanese

Date2002

MediumCast glass

Dimensions7 × 4 × 3 in. (17.8 × 10.2 × 7.6 cm)

SignedThe work is signed; spaced around the base of each object, is incised the artist name, title, and date: “Yamamoto Koichiro Half Full / Half Empty 2002”

Credit LineGift of Lisa Shaffer Anderson and Dudley Buist Anderson

Object number2021.28.21

Not on view

DescriptionThis sculpture includes two solid colorless glass cast pitcher-shaped objects (tapering cone base, pointed “spout” at rim). In one vessel, the lower half of the pitcher is of bubbly glass and the upper half is well mixed; in the other vessel, this is reversed.
ProvenancePurchased from Barrett-Marsden Gallery in London 05/22/2002 by Dr. and Mrs. Dudley and Lisa Anderson