Dancing Pear Bottle

Kari Russell-Pool, Dancing Pear Bottle, 1993, blown and flame-worked glass, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of MCI, 2001.89.33A-B
Kari Russell-Pool, Dancing Pear Bottle, 1993, blown and flame-worked glass, 16 788 148 34 in. (42.820.822.1 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of MCI, 2001.89.33A-B

Artwork Details

Title
Dancing Pear Bottle
Date
1993
Dimensions
16 788 148 34 in. (42.820.822.1 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of MCI
Mediums Description
blown and flame-worked glass
Classifications
Subjects
  • Object — other — container
  • Object — fruit — pear
Object Number
2001.89.33A-B

Artwork Description

Kari Russell-Pool and her husband, Marc Petrovic, work together to create sculptures that combine their love of nature with traditional glass forms such as bottles, vases, and bowls. In this piece, Russell-Pool heated thin glass canes with a torch, then twisted and joined them to form a latticework in the shape of a bottle. The intricate flowers and leaves appear part of the vine, as if they grew naturally from the glass as the artist worked. But the large blown-glass pears stand out from the bottle form, balancing precariously on the slender stems like cartoon fruits that sprouted unexpectedly from a tiny plant.

Works by this artist (15 items)

Sam Gilliam, Buoy Landscape III, from the suite Buoy Landscape, 1982, intaglio with screenprint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Glen D. Nelson, M.D., 1998.57.9.3, © 1982, Vermillion Editions Limited, Inc. and Sam Gilliam; Minneapolis, MN
Buoy Landscape III, from the suite Buoy Landscape
Date1982
intaglio with screenprint on paper
Not on view
Sam Gilliam, Buoy Landscape I, from the suite Buoy Landscape, 1982, intaglio with screenprint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Glen D. Nelson, M.D., 1998.57.9.1, © 1982, Vermillion Editions Limited, Inc. and Sam Gilliam; Minneapolis, MN
Buoy Landscape I, from the suite Buoy Landscape
Date1982
intaglio with screenprint on paper
Not on view
T. L. Solien, Memoir Den, from the portfolio Fragments of Hope, 1982, drypoint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Glen D. Nelson, M.D., 1998.57.20.6, © 1982, Vermillion Editions Limited, Inc. and T. L. Solien; Minneapolis, MN
Memoir Den, from the portfolio Fragments of Hope
Date1982
drypoint on paper
Not on view

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KARI RUSSELL-POOL

Born: Salem, Massachusetts 1967

Dancing Pear Bottle

1993, blown and flame-worked glass

 

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