American Acid Capsule with Cloth Container

Manufacturer Venini & Co., Murano, Italy, established 1921 Italian

1969–70

Not on view

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

Object Information

Overview

Provenance

Exhibition History

References

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

More Artwork

By Richard Marquis

In the same medium

From the same time and place

Blue Boy's Mamie, Richard Marquis American, Glass (blown and cast) — Blue Boy's Mamie
Designer Richard Marquis
1995

Gray and Brass, John Sloan American, Oil on canvas, American — Gray and Brass
John Sloan
1907

Ganagana (ancestor figure), Toba Batak artist, Wood, fiber, trade cloth, horse hair, cowrie shells, glass beads, brass, iron nails, bone, seeds, feathers, Toba Batak people — Ganagana (ancestor figure)
Toba Batak artist
late 19th–early 20th century

Necklace, Meta Overbeck American, Gold, emeralds, Montana sapphires, topazes, enamel, American — Necklace
Meta Overbeck
Louis C. Tiffany
Manufacturer Tiffany & Co.
ca. 1914–15

The Supper at Emmaus, Figures and flowers of lampworked glass (opaque white, pink, lavender, green, brown, purple, black, blue, light blue, and colorless), cardboard, paper, shells, glass mirror plate, glass chips, imitation leather (paper), cloth, paint, composition material, wire, fabric. Assembled., probably French (Nevers) — The Supper at Emmaus
probably French (Nevers)
18th century

Research Resources

The Met provides unparalleled resources for research and welcomes an international community of students and scholars. The Met's Open Access API is where creators and researchers can connect to the The Met collection. Open Access data and public domain images are available for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use without permission or fee.

To request images under copyright and other restrictions, please use this Image Request form.

Feedback

We continue to research and examine historical and cultural context for objects in The Met collection. If you have comments or questions about this object record, please contact us using the form below. The Museum looks forward to receiving your comments.

Send feedback

Content Notice

The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world, and our online collection reflects ongoing work conducted over the course of our more than 150-year history. You may encounter objects or images that may be inappropriate for some viewers or information that may be outdated.