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Vase #65-78 by Sidney R. Hutter / American Art
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Vase #65-78

1990 Sidney R. Hutter Born: Champaign, Illinois 1954 cut, ground, beveled, polished, and laminated plate glass 23 x 15 in. (58.4 x 38.1 cm.) diam. Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the James Renwick Alliance, Anne and Ronald Abramson, Sarah and Edwin Hansen and museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program 1991.67 Smithsonian American Art Museum
4th Floor, Luce Foundation Center



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Vase #65-78



"These pieces strive towards analyzing other possible orientations and interpretations of a vase. Do vases have to have a hole? Is the vase silhouette necessarily mirrored exactly on the inside? Can horizontal or vertical planes describe volume?" Sidney Hutter, 1993


Sidney Hutter's pieces are not vessels in the literal sense; they mirror the outline of a traditional vase but are constructed from layers of plate glass to create a solid form. As Hutter explains, he wants his objects to suggest containment yet "hold nothing but the liquidity of light." Rectangular strips of glass divide each disc of beveled glass, forming a spiral that appears to lie within the vessel.

For more information about this work visit the Luce Foundation Center.


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decorative arts - glass

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Born: Champaign, Illinois 1954

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