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Solar Thunder

Portfolio/SeriesThe Wall Disc
Artist (United States, born 1942)
Date1983
MediumGlass
DimensionsH x W x D: 27 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (69.8 x 16.5 x 5.7 cm)
Object TypeGlass
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Scott Vance and Sharon Kootz Vance
Object number2005.442
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Description

Brejcha has always admired regionalist artists like John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton and expressed a desire to stay close to his Kansas roots. His glass sculptures often evoke the land and sky of the Kansas prairie. 

Exhibitions
Late Afternoon Post
Vernon Brejcha
1980s
2005.444
Ghostpipe
Vernon Brejcha
2001
2005.445
Prairie Moon
Vernon Brejcha
ca. 1980
2005.440
North Carolina Matrix
Vernon Brejcha
1999
2005.447a
New Century Peacepipe
Vernon Brejcha
1995
2005.443
Untitled (bowl)
Vernon Brejcha
1971
2005.438
Hot Winds
Vernon Brejcha
1999
2005.447b
Ominous Cloud
Vernon Brejcha
1985
2005.446
Untitled (paperweight)
Vernon Brejcha
1969
2005.437
Post
Vernon Brejcha
2002
2005.448
Untitled (vase)
Vernon Brejcha
1977
2005.439
North Carolina Matrix
Vernon Brejcha
1999
2005.447c