The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Clear glass cube that sits on a flattened corner, where it meets the ground. At the center is a smaller cube dominated by square flecks of color, predominantly yellow, but also red, green, and blue, that refract through the rest of the cube in rainbow streaks.

Spring Floral

c. 1980

Jon Kuhn

(American, 1949-)
America
cast-optical glass
Overall: 12.5 x 12.5 x 12.5 cm (4 15/16 x 4 15/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Gift of Leatrice S. and Melvin B. Eagle 2012.68
Location: Not on view

Description

Like Christopher Ries and others of his generation, John Kuhn works with industrial produced optical glass to create geometric forms with intricate patterns of layered color. The resulting colors and imagery are reflected and refracted into a complex architecture.
  • Commissioned by Leatrice Eagle in 1980 from the artist
  • {{cite web|title=Spring Floral|url=false|author=Jon Kuhn|year=c. 1980|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.68