Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- Selenium Ruby is named for the vivid red in the center of the form. Selenium is one of the most important coloring agents for making pink and red glass, and selenium ruby is the final, brilliant red produced when the maximum amount of selenium is added to a certain type of glass. Michael Taylor uses clear optical glass to distort and intensify the different hues, highlighting his planes and blocks of color.
- Luce Object Quote
- “hard edges, formalistic, robotics,
- imaginary mechanical function
- line, subtle line, line thick and thin,
- differing ¼ inch, ½ inch
- beveled, chamfered edges,
- line-forming edges
- continuum of line and form, inside,
- outside the capsule” Michael Taylor
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Michael Taylor, born Lewisburg, TN 1944
- Date
- 1994
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Barbara Tannenbaum Epstein and Henry David Epstein
- Medium
- glass and Vitrolite
- Dimensions
- 16 1/4 x 17 1/4 x 13 in. (41.3 x 43.8 x 33.0 cm.)
- Type
- Decorative Arts-Glass
- Crafts
