Michael Aschenbrenner | "Damaged Bone Series" | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title: "Damaged Bone Series"

Designer: Michael Aschenbrenner (American, born Pomona, California, 1949)

Date: 1990

Medium: Glass, fabric, wire, twigs

Dimensions: Oberall estimated: 64 × 62 × 4 in., 36.8 lb. (162.6 × 157.5 × 10.2 cm, 16.7 kg)
2003.39a: 28 1/2 × 6 × 6 in., 5 lb. (72.4 × 15.2 × 15.2 cm, 2.3 kg)
2003.39b: 28 1/2 × 2 3/4 × 3 1/4 in., 2.6 lb. (72.4 × 7 × 8.3 cm, 1179.352g)
2003.39c: 24 1/4 × 10 1/4 × 4 1/4 in., 2.6 lb. (61.6 × 26 × 10.8 cm, 1.2 kg)
2003.39d: 33 × 2 1/4 × 2 1/2 in., 2 lb. (83.8 × 5.7 × 6.4 cm, 907.194g)
2003.39e: 22 3/4 × 4 × 4 1/2 in., 3 lb. (57.8 × 10.2 × 11.4 cm, 1360.791g)
2003.39f: 25 1/2 × 3 1/2 × 8 in., 3.4 lb. (64.8 × 8.9 × 20.3 cm, 1542.23g)
2003.39g: 19 3/8 × 2 1/8 × 2 1/2 in., 1.6 lb. (49.2 × 5.4 × 6.4 cm, 0.7 kg)
2003.39h: 25 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 2 5/8 in., 3.4 lb. (64.8 × 16.5 × 6.7 cm, 1.5 kg)
2003.39i: 13 1/2 × 2 1/4 × 3 1/2 in., 1.4 lb. (34.3 × 5.7 × 8.9 cm, 635.036g)
2003.39j: 11 × 2 × 2 1/2 in., 0.6 lb. (27.9 × 5.1 × 6.4 cm, 272.158g)
2003.39k: 8 1/8 × 2 1/4 × 4 1/8 in., 4 lb. (20.6 × 5.7 × 10.5 cm, 1814.388g)
2003.39l: 21 × 4 × 2 7/8 in., 2.2 lb. (53.3 × 10.2 × 7.3 cm, 1 kg)
2003.39m: 12 1/2 × 2 × 2 1/2 in., 0.6 lb. (31.8 × 5.1 × 6.4 cm, 272.158g)
2003.39n: 17 × 4 7/8 × 2 1/2 in., 1.8 lb. (43.2 × 12.4 × 6.4 cm, 0.8 kg)
2003.39o: 22 1/2 × 3 1/2 × 4 in., 2.6 lb. (57.2 × 8.9 × 10.2 cm, 1179.352g)

Classification: Glass

Credit Line: Gift of Arthur J. Williams, 2003

Object Number: 2003.39a-o

Inscription: Two dark blue bones signed and dated: M. Aschenbrenner / 1990 / NYC; M. Aschenbrenner / NYC. '86

Arthur J. Williams, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (by 1996–2003; his gift to MMA)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Studio Glass in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 8–October 6, 1996, no. 1 (as Promised Gift of Arthur J. Williams).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Significant Objects," November 26, 2002–May 2, 2004, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Highlights from the Modern Design Collection: 1900 to the Present," June 23, 2009–May 1, 2011, no catalogue.

Karen Chambers. Transparent Motives: Glass on a Large Scale. Cincinnati, 1986.

Lucy R. Lippard. "A Different War: Vietnam in Art." Contemporanea 23 (November 1990), pp. 86–87.

Janet Kardon, ed. Glass Installations. Exh. cat., American Craft Museum. New York, 1993.

Linda Dyett. "Multifaceted Glass: A Metropolitan Museum Exhibition Signals the Coming of Age of the Studio Glass Movement." House Beautiful (April 1996), p. 44.