Allium, 1989

Lamp-worked and encased glass; 12.7 x 7.3 x 7 cm

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of the George M. Foley Family 1991.131

Trained as a scientific glassblower, Stankard (1943 - ) employs the comparatively rare technique of lamp work to create the flowers and animals used as the central motifs in his small sculptures. He has developed an extraordinary dexterity in the production of realistic subjects that he sometimes combines with tiny representations of nude figures. He is widely recognized for his technical accomplishment in his chosen mode of work. Rick Ayotte (1944 - ), a maker of paperweights who resides in New Hampshire, made the turtle Stankard incorporated into Environmental with Turtle.