Echinacea
Artist
Linda Lighton
(American, born 1948)
Date1998
MediumGlazed ceramic
DimensionsOverall: 12 × 36 × 18 inches (30.48 × 91.44 × 45.72 cm)
Credit LineGift of Carol and Dennis Hudson
Object number2018.36
On View
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DescriptionA large ceramic sculpture in the form of an Echinacea flower. A single spikey-coned center sits atop the tips of four (out of eleven) petals. The twisting stem has five leaves. A smaller a bud affixed to the lower portion of the tendril, ending in a curl. A transparent glaze covers the entire sculpture maintaining the creamy color of the clay body.Exhibition HistoryMagnificent Gifts of the 75th, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 11–April 4, 2010, no cat.
Recent Gifts of Architecture, Design and Decorative Arts, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, July 30 2022–January 21 2024, no cat.
With Dennis and Carol Hudson, Kansas City, MO, by 2009.
Their gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Copyright© Linda Lighton
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