Glass Blowers of Murano
New York–born Ulrich studied in Munich and spent most of his career abroad, painting picturesque scenes of everyday life. Here, he has depicted Italian workers blowing glass, a craft revived in Venice during the late nineteenth century. The setting is the city’s glassmaking center on the island of Murano, which Ulrich had visited the summer before. This later variant of a subject he also exhibited in the Palace of Fine Arts at the Chicago fair expresses the theme of multigenerational manual skill treated by many American and European artists at the time.
Artwork Details
- Title: Glass Blowers of Murano
- Artist: Charles Frederick Ulrich (1858–1908)
- Date: 1886
- Culture: American
- Medium: Oil on wood
- Dimensions: 26 1/8 x 21 1/8 in. (66.4 x 53.7 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Several Gentlemen, 1886
- Object Number: 86.13
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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