Wax and Wane
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Object Details
- Date
- 1983
- Artist
- Nancy Carman, born Tucson, AZ 1950
- Luce Center Label
- Nancy Carman's haunting ceramic pieces frequently contain white surrealistic figures in eerie settings. In Wax and Wane, Carman attached a bald, expressive head to the top of a gray pyramidal structure. The title refers to phases of the moon, included behind and to the left of the figure, over the course of the lunar day. Carman calls herself "slightly superstitious" and believes that each of her pieces is the result of some event in her life, whether it is an experience or "simultaneous or even precognitive phenomena." (The artist, quoted in Ceramics Monthly 29, no. 9, November 1981)
- Topic
- Landscape\celestial\moon
- Figure\head
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Renwick Gallery
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor, 53A
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Helen Williams Drutt English and H. Peter Stern in honor of the 35th anniversary of the Renwick Gallery
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Object number
- 2007.47.7A-B
- Type
- Decorative Arts-Ceramic
- Crafts
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Medium
- porcelain and stoneware
- Dimensions
- 17 1/2 x 17 3/8 x 11 3/8 in. (44.4 x 44.2 x 28.8 cm)
- Metadata Usage
- Not determined
- Record ID
- saam_2007.47.7A-B