Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2021.

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Artist Flo Perkins (American, born 1951)

CultureAmerican

Date2008

MediumBlown glass with glass threads

Dimensions14 1/2 × 11 1/2 × 9 in. (36.8 × 29.2 × 22.9 cm)

SignedThe artist’s signature and date are etched near the base “F. Perkins 2008.”

Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Renée Diamonstein Memorial Fund

Object number2021.44

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 119, Case 65

DescriptionThis is a blown glass sculpture that looks like a red-flowering cactus. The body of the sculpture has an all-over geometric pattern in yellow, green, and red. The top of the scupture is covered with hundreds of green glass threads to look like cactus spines, and is surmounted by two large red flowery blooms of blown glass.
ProvenanceFlo Perkins to Rago Auction House to CMA.