Florence Griswold Museum - The Light on the Plain

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The Light on the Plain

1965
20th Century
11/16 x 10 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.

Varujan Boghosian, (1926–2020)

Object Type: Sculpture

Medium and Support: wood and mixed media

Credit Line: Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of Charles T. Clark

Accession Number: 2020.20

Tabernacle-like box, painted dark red, inside which wooden hands hang with a wooden ball between them. The rest of the box is filled with a mosaic of "anchor blocks," an educational toy made in Germany since 1880 out of quartz sand, chalk, color pigments, and linseed oil. The artist collected old objects and brought them together into assemblages like this one.

Anchor Blocks were developed from German educator Friedrich Froebel's "gifts," a series of wooden building blocks. Brothers Otto and Gustav Lilienthal developed a way to make the blocks more precisely for a more weight, stable, yet natural feeling toy.

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