Object Details
Artist
Bruria, born Jerusalem, Israel 1932
Luce Center Label
The quiet and peaceful face of Dream Sequence is painted with blue, purple, and gold paints, while the back of the head is decorated with butterfly decals. Bruria often includes actual cloth on her sculptures like the one that is wrapped around this head, inspired by the lace head coverings her observant mother would wear during their Friday evening Sabbath celebrations.
Luce Object Quote
"I leave space for spontaneity when I drape the heads with lace. I never decide beforehand how I will paint the porcelain---the painted image appears from a different meditative space." Artist quoted in Journal, The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Winter 1981
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Jonas Rosenfield, Jr. in memory of Lenore Rosenfield
Date
1978
Object number
1981.19
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
Decorative Arts-Ceramic
Crafts
Medium
porcelain, glaze, china paint, decals, and cloth with slip
Dimensions
10 1/4 x 7 x 8 1/2 in. (26.0 x 17.8 x 21.6 cm.)
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
Department
Renwick Gallery
On View
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor, 53B
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor
Data Source
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Topic
Figure female\head
State of being\phenomenon\dream
Link to Original Record
Record ID
saam_1981.19