Pairs (Pear)
Artist
Audrey Handler
(American, born 1934)
CultureAmerican
Date1988
MediumBlown glass
Dimensions16 × 10 1/4 × 14 3/4 in. (40.6 × 26 × 37.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2020.29b
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a mixed-media artwork of glass, metal, and wood. This is one of two pears made of solid blown glass that are arranged on the uppermost plate glass oval. The colored glass of the blown pears has a mottled appearance from rolling in glass frit during hot working, in green and yellow or red and yellow colors; a flat, polished section on the front of each pear serves as a window to the interior of the fruit.ProvenancePurchased from the artist by the Chrysler Museum of Art, November 2020.Exhibition History“World Glass Now” third triennial international glass exhibition, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan; plus four other museums in Japan and six museums in Australia; 1988. "Sharper Edges: Women Working on the Edge of Glass," Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, WI, 2018-19. Published References_World Glass Now ’88_ (Sapporo: Asahi Shimbun), no. 65.
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