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TMA Limited Edition "Tree Peony" 2024 Ornament
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2024 Limited Edition "Tree Peony" Ornament
Inspired by the 1962 Studio Glass Movement, born in Toledo, Ohio.
Ohio native and international awarding-winning artist Bandhu Dunham created this elegant glass ornament using hot glass and skilled lampworking techniques. It was inspired by the early 18th-century Flower Still Life by Dutch painter Rachel Ruysch in the Toledo Museum of Art's collection. The original painting depicts a lush composition of flowers just past their prime. Although starting to fade, the flowers still carry a sense of dynamism, enhancing the painting's theme: the evanescence of life and the importance of enjoying the beauty of the moment.
Bandhu Dunham captured some of this mood by combining green and brown tones as well as sinuous, wrinkled shapes and curves throughout the stem and leaves of the ornament. The swirling red variegations of the hand-sculpted central flower derive from copper oxide and other compounds in crushed glass applied to the surface and swirled by the artist. Each ornament has been individually handcrafted for the Toledo Museum of Art, ensuring that every piece is unique.
Rachel Ruysch (Dutch, 1664-1750), Flower Still Life, about 1726, oil on canvas, 29 ¾ x 23 7/8 in. (75.6 x 60.6 cm), Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 1956.57
Against a dark background, in the style of flower painting from the second half of the seventeenth century, Rachel Ruysch composed a lush floral arrangement, including many flowers that would never actually bloom at the same time. Among this array of blossoming and wilting plants, a closer look reveals caterpillars crawling along the stem of a flower and browning leaves riddled with holes made by hungry insects. Such vivid details suggest the fragility of the arrangement, even alluding to the fact that beauty fades and all living things must die.
Ruysch was the daughter of a professor of anatomy and botany, and likely became familiar with plants through him. By age fifteen she was studying with the still-life artist Willem van Aelst. From this background of scientific and artistic studies, she learned to capture the essence of nature in her own flower paintings. The most famous female painter in the Golden Age of Dutch art, Ruysch enjoyed an international reputation over a career that lasted almost seven decades.
TMA Exclusive Product.
All sales on original artwork are final. No discounts apply.
Inspired by the 1962 Studio Glass Movement, born in Toledo, Ohio.
Ohio native and international awarding-winning artist Bandhu Dunham created this elegant glass ornament using hot glass and skilled lampworking techniques. It was inspired by the early 18th-century Flower Still Life by Dutch painter Rachel Ruysch in the Toledo Museum of Art's collection. The original painting depicts a lush composition of flowers just past their prime. Although starting to fade, the flowers still carry a sense of dynamism, enhancing the painting's theme: the evanescence of life and the importance of enjoying the beauty of the moment.
Bandhu Dunham captured some of this mood by combining green and brown tones as well as sinuous, wrinkled shapes and curves throughout the stem and leaves of the ornament. The swirling red variegations of the hand-sculpted central flower derive from copper oxide and other compounds in crushed glass applied to the surface and swirled by the artist. Each ornament has been individually handcrafted for the Toledo Museum of Art, ensuring that every piece is unique.
Rachel Ruysch (Dutch, 1664-1750), Flower Still Life, about 1726, oil on canvas, 29 ¾ x 23 7/8 in. (75.6 x 60.6 cm), Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 1956.57
Against a dark background, in the style of flower painting from the second half of the seventeenth century, Rachel Ruysch composed a lush floral arrangement, including many flowers that would never actually bloom at the same time. Among this array of blossoming and wilting plants, a closer look reveals caterpillars crawling along the stem of a flower and browning leaves riddled with holes made by hungry insects. Such vivid details suggest the fragility of the arrangement, even alluding to the fact that beauty fades and all living things must die.
Ruysch was the daughter of a professor of anatomy and botany, and likely became familiar with plants through him. By age fifteen she was studying with the still-life artist Willem van Aelst. From this background of scientific and artistic studies, she learned to capture the essence of nature in her own flower paintings. The most famous female painter in the Golden Age of Dutch art, Ruysch enjoyed an international reputation over a career that lasted almost seven decades.
TMA Exclusive Product.
All sales on original artwork are final. No discounts apply.
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