Flacon I

1989

Howard Ben Tré American, 1949 - 2020

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About the Artwork

Ben Tré has broken away from other studio glass artists by working primarily in an industrial environment. He has perfected a series of sand-casting techniques that enables him to create large glass forms. In a factory in Brooklyn, New York, the molten glass is poured into resin-bonded sand molds. The glass forms are then returned to Ben Tré's studio in Providence, where he sandblasts the glass and finishes the surfaces by adding copper and gold leaf, wax, and pigment. Ben Tré explores the translucent quality of the glass as it interacts with the metal core and gold leaf surface.

Title Flacon I

Artwork Date 1989

Artist Howard Ben Tré

Life Dates 1949 - 2020

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Cast glass, brass, gold leaf, pigmented waxes

Dimensions Overall: 50 × 15 × 9 inches (127 × 38.1 × 22.9 cm)

Classification Glass

Department Contemporary Art after 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Lenora and Alfred Glancy Foundation Fund, with funds from Marvin and Betty Danto, Mrs. William B. Giles in memory of her husband, Modern Decorative Arts Group, Dorothy and Byron Gerson, and Jean Sosin

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1990.15

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Charles Cowles Gallery, Inc., (New York, New York), artist representative

1990, transfer to DIA by purchase 2/28/1990.

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"Howard Ben Tre." American Craft (April/May 1990): 76.

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Courtesy of Howard Ben Tré

Howard Ben Tré, Flacon I, 1989, cast glass, brass, gold leaf, pigmented waxes. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Lenora and Alfred Glancy Foundation Fund, with funds from Marvin and Betty Danto, et al., 1990.15.