$693
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
Modern and Contemporary Craft: Selections from the Robert L. Pfannebecker Collection
Auction: November 18, 2022 11:00 AM EDT
Bronze, sheet metal fabrication, etched and stamped, with intaglio
Impressed lettering to interior floor of vessel: "USEFUL PROJECT WITH SENTIMENTAL APPEAL, FEBRUARY 1987, BEAUTY AS THE PROMISE OF FUNCTION"
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist
Property from the Robert L. Pfannebecker Collection
Exhibited
"Contemporary Crafts from the Collection of Robert L. Pfannebecker, Esq. '55", Rothman Gallery. The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 13 - December 8, 2000
"Customary Objects: Metalworks by Lisa Norton", John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, January 1996.
"Ready-Mades: Simulacrum", Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, Texas, September 1990
Winner, Third Prize, "Young Americans", a national competition organized by the American Craft Museum of the American Craft Council, September 15 - October 28, 1988
Illustrated in the accompanying exhibition catalogue (p. 11) and in an accompanying article in "American Craft", August/September 1988
Artist Biography
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1962, Lisa Norton is a Chicago-based artist who earned her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1985 and her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987. Norton is a faculty member and Director of Designed Objects at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.