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My Arcadia

My Arcadia

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Martha Glowacki

In general, not touching artwork helps preserve it for future generations. Occasionally, however, an artist designs a work to be handled. In the case of Martha Glowacki’s My Arcadia, touch is not only allowed, it is essential: please open the cabinet’s drawers (carefully) and discover what lies inside.
Artist/Maker
Martha Glowacki
(American, b. 1950)
Title
My Arcadia
Date
2000
Material & Process
Mixed media and wooden cabinet
Dimensions
79 x 62 x 34 in. Overall
Credit
Elvehjem Museum of Art General Endowment Fund purchase
Inventory No.
2000.88
Classification
Sculpture
Location
United States

Related

December 2000, sold by the artist, Martha Glowacki (Sauk City, WI) to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Bulletin/Biennial Report 1999-2001." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2002. p. 98
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 17, No. 1, Fall 2000. p. 9
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Cabinets of Curiosities: Four Artists, Four Visions." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2000. pp. 55-63, 90-93, 106
  • Lidtke, Thomas D. and Annemarie Sawkins. "A Creative Place: The History of Wisconsin Art." Cedarburg, WI: Cedarburg Art Museum, 2021. p. 410, fig. 7.54

  • Faculty Exhibition 2020: Chazen Museum of Art, 2/1/2020–7/31/2020
  • Cabinets of Curiosities: Four Artists, Four Visions: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/7/2000–12/3/2000

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