Wayne Higby, Temple's Gate Pass, 1988, earthenware and glaze, overall: 14 x 33 x 8 in. (35.6 x 83.8 x 20.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of KPMG Peat Marwick, 1993.54.6A-J, © 1988, Wayne Higby
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Artwork Details
- Title
- Temple’s Gate Pass
- Artist
- Date
- 1988
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- overall: 14 x 33 x 8 in. (35.6 x 83.8 x 20.3 cm)
- Copyright
- © 1988, Wayne Higby
- Credit Line
- Gift of KPMG Peat Marwick
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- earthenware and glaze
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Landscape — canyon
- Landscape — river
- Landscape — weather — snow
- Object Number
- 1993.54.6A-J
Artwork Description
Landscape imagery . . . provides a way to escape the bonds of reality . . . . I am able to stand on the mesa and experience myself as in a dream. -- Wayne Higby
Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, 2019
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Artist
Date1978
hard and soft ground etching, drypoint, sugar aquatint, photo etching, and found objects
Exhibitions
November 13, 2015–March 6, 2022
Connections is the Renwick Gallery’s dynamic ongoing permanent collection presentation, featuring more than 80 objects celebrating craft as a discipline and an approach to living differently in the modern world.