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"Six in the Grass" |
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A transom-size
panel featuring a translucent blue cat and red birds in a 'neo-Victorian' composition.
Curling grass extra- highly textured translucent green ripple glass waves
before a background of opaque Yoghiogheny and Uroboros art glass and round jewels in
the corners. 13½" x 35" |
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"Norrill" |
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A transom-size
panel with two characters peeking through an ornate 'neo-Victorian' design in hues of
cranberry, rose violet, and highly textured translucent red Uroboros ripple glass.
includes 12 round jewels. 12" x 27" |
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"Owl family with Flavoparmelia and Pertusaria" |
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A transom-size
panel depicts an owl couple with their down-covered baby in an oak tree. Blue and white
patches of Flavoparmelia and Pertusaria reveal the artist's bizarre
obsession with lichen and the scientific names of lichens. 11½" x 32½" |
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"Simple guy" |
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An ornately
bordered and colorful 'neo-Victorian' panel features a variety of interestingly textured
opaque and translucent Uroboros and Bullseye art glass framing a 'simple guy'. Three clear
glass lenses in his shirt provide perfect 'peep-holes' on an upside-down world (detail). 20½" x 20½" |
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"Ancestors" |
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A matched pair of
'neo-Victorian' panels depicts two mysterious Victorian-era 'ancestors.' The panels
incorporate opaque Uroboros and Bullseye art glass, translucent amber Fischer antique
glass, and 28 round and faceted jewels. 20½" x 20½" |
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"Two Guys" |
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An ornate border
of opaque Uroboros and Armstrong art glass frames two figures contemplating each other on
a field of transparent blue. Hues of orange and blue are highlighted by 4 faceted
orange jewels, 2 round blue jewels and two unique hand-blown amulets which contain their
own abstract designs inside (detail). 21" x 34" |
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"Purple flower" |
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A stylized flower
of an intricately textured purple glass (detail) on a
background of clear antique style glass. 40" x 9" |
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"Algae" |
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The abstract
beauty of cells pressed together in a tissue inspired these abstract panels.
Like nuclei, round red glass globs stud the green Yoghiogheny art glass. They
are sized as sidelight windows to frame a door or to hang as a border in a picture window
or glass door. 48½" x 10½" |
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"Lily cells" |
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The beauty of a
micrograph of root tissue from the Smilax lily inspired this
transom-sized panel. The multiple shades of green found in a single sheet of Uroboros art
glass are rearranged into the pattern of cells surrounding a vessel of clear iridescent
ripple glass. 10½" x 28" |
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"Chaetoceros" - a diatom |
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Diatoms are a type
of microscopic algae with glass-walled cells. Chaetoceros, a multicelled
diatom with long protruding flagella is abstracted in this panel of clear Flemish water
glass, clear yellow highlights and round clear glass globs. 25½" x 12" |
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"Rhabdonema" - a diatom |
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Diatoms are a type
of microscopic algae with glass-walled cells. Rhabdonema, a multicelled
diatom is abstracted in this panel of clear Flemish water glass with clear yellow
highlights. 47½" x 6" |
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