American Acid Capsule with Cloth Container
This politically charged work began while Richard Marquis was a Fulbright Fellow at the Venini Glassworks in Murano, Italy. Marveling at the quantities of discarded red, blue, and white glass, he decided to use the leftovers to create the stars and stripes with the murrine process. Although in a new setting, Marquis had recent antiwar events in Berkeley on his mind as well as the recreational drug use associated with the era. Back in the States, Marquis commissioned the cloth container from Nirmal Kaur (Barbara Brittell).
Artwork Details
- Title: American Acid Capsule with Cloth Container
- Designer: Richard Marquis (American, born Bumblebee, Arizona, 1945)
- Manufacturer: Venini & Co., Murano, Italy, established 1921
- Date: 1969–70
- Medium: Glass, cloth (different fibers)
- Dimensions: Glass pill: 4 1/4 × 1 3/8 in., 0.5 lb. (10.8 × 3.5 cm, 0.2 kg)
Other (Cloth container): 6 7/16 × 2 3/4 in. (16.3 × 7 cm) - Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of Dale and Doug Anderson, 2006
- Object Number: 2006.515a, b
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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