About the Artwork
Cold Storage
1983
Michael Glancy
born 1950
American
Unknown
Glass coated with metal oxide, plexiglas
Installed: 10 1/8 × 10 × 12 inches (25.7 × 25.4 × 30.5 cm) Overall (vessel): 8 × 8 1/2 inches (20.3 × 21.6 cm) Overall (rectangle base): 12 × 10 × 3/4 inches (30.5 × 25.4 × 1.9 cm) Overall (Plexi base): 6 × 5 × 3/4 inches (15.2 × 12.7 × 1.9 cm)
Glass
Contemporary Art after 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Lenora and Alfred Glancy Foundation Fund
1984.11
Courtesy of the artist
Markings
Vessel signed on exterior bottom edge: Michael M. Glancy Base signed on upper face, corner: Michael M. Glancy
Inscribed, dated on exterior bottom edge and upper face, corner: 1983
Exterior bottom of vase: [maker's mark with appearance of a stamp] MG 83
Provenance
1984-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Courtesy of the artist
Michael Glancy, Cold Storage, 1983, glass coated with metal oxide, Plexiglas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Lenora and Alfred Glancy Foundation Fund, 1984.11.
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