  About the Artwork
  
  
  Ben Tré has broken away from other studio glass artists by working primarily in an industrial environment. He has perfected a series of sand-casting techniques that enables him to create large glass forms. In a factory in Brooklyn, New York, the molten glass is poured into resin-bonded sand molds. The glass forms are then returned to Ben Tré's studio in Providence, where he sandblasts the glass and finishes the surfaces by adding copper and gold leaf, wax, and pigment. Ben Tré explores the translucent quality of the glass as it interacts with the metal core and gold leaf surface.
  
  
  Title
  Flacon I
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1989
  
  Artist
  Howard Ben Tré
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1949 - 2020
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Cast glass, brass, gold leaf, pigmented waxes
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 50 × 15 × 9 inches (127 × 38.1 × 22.9 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Glass
  
  
  Department
  Contemporary Art after 1950
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Lenora and Alfred Glancy Foundation Fund, with funds from Marvin and Betty Danto, Mrs. William B. Giles in memory of her husband, Modern Decorative Arts Group, Dorothy and Byron Gerson, and Jean Sosin
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  1990.15
  
  
  Copyright
  Non-commercial all standard museum
