- Object Name:
- Hanukkah Lamp
- Artist/Maker:
- David Weinrib
- Bio:
- American, 1924-2016
- Place Made:
- New York, United States
- Date:
- 1993
- Medium:
- Sand-blasted sheet glass
- Dimensions:
- 19 11/16 × 18 × 15 3/4 in. (50 × 45.7 × 40 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Gift of Richard Florsheim Art Fund and Judaica Acquisitions Endowment Fund
- Accession Number:
- 1993-207
Not On View
This lamp was originally a glass sculpture, which Weinrib adapted into a Hanukkah lamp at the request of the museum. The artist comments, "The concerns of transparency, translucency, linearity, and weightlessness are elements I have been involved with for many years in my sculpture."
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