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Artist |
Wilmarth, Christopher |
Title |
Long Leavers |
Medium |
Steel and acid-etched plate glass |
Date |
1979 |
Description |
Christopher Wilmarth (Sonoma, California 1943-1987 Brooklyn) Long Leavers, 1979 Steel and acid-etched plate glass 21 1/2 x 16 x 16 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 2017 purchase with funds provided by Mary Hale Corkran in memory of her husband Blair Christopher Wilmarth was a talented mixed-media sculptor who specialized in hard-edged sculptures energized by the contrasting properties of dense sheet steel and luminous plate glass. Shaped only by a few cuts and bends, the steel in Long Leavers suggests a soaring cathedral punctuated by a vertical slab of velvety, acid-etched glass. By avoiding any unnecessary decoration, the artist seeks to call attention to the rugged nature of his materials, to surrounding spaces, and most of all to the dramatic interplay of light and shadow. |
Catalog Number |
2017.04.01 |
Search Terms |
Steel Glass Etchings Sculpture |
Credit line |
purchase with funds provided by Mary Hale Corkran in memory of her husband Blair |