Artwork Details
- Title
- Mountains by Moonlight
- Artist
- Date
- 1984
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 8 7⁄8 x 4 5⁄8 x 2 3⁄4 in. (22.6 x 11.8 x 7.0 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dale and Doug Anderson
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- glass
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Landscape — time — sunrise
- Object Number
- 1996.85.1
Artwork Description
Mark Peiser has made many sculptures that show landscapes with a sun or moon hovering above. He forms the initial image by pouring layers of molten glass into a mold, then quickly adds a dollop of a different color to the hot mixture for the floating sphere. In Mountains by Moonlight a simple twist of frosted glass creates the illusion of rolling hills below a clear blue sky. The highly polished planes of glass on the outside refract the image so that we see a slightly different view from each angle.