Stanley Whitney, Franz Mayer of Munich, and others
Dance with me Henri
2021
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- Artist: Stanley Whitney
- Fabricator: Franz Mayer of Munich
- Commissioned by: The Baltimore Museum of Art
Dance with me Henri
2021
Physical Qualities
Mouth-blown glass and lead came, Left window: 57 1/8 × 59 7/8 in. (145.1 × 152.1 cm.)
Center window: 81 1/8 × 70 in. (206.1 × 177.8 cm.)
Right window: 57 1/8 × 59 7/8 in. (145.1 × 152.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Commissioned by the Baltimore Museum of Art, supported by Art Fund established with exchange funds from gifts of Dr. and Mrs. Edgar F. Berman, Equitable Bank, N.A., Geoffrey Gates, Sandra O. Moose, National Endowment for the Arts, Lawrence Rubin, Philip M. Stern, and Alan J. Zakon
Object Number
2021.167
Reds, blues, oranges, greens, and yellows: Stanley Whitney built these three stained glass compositions as he builds his paintings, by stacking brilliant blocks of color. Each color is chosen for the way it speaks to the others in a call and response. As the world spins and orbits, natural light shifts and amplifies the feel of animation in these windows.
Among his many inspirations, Whitney’s painterly improvising encompasses his love of jazz, the Egyptian pyramids, abstract painting in New York, and the inventive quilts of Gee’s Bend in Alabama. Whitney also admires Henri Matisse’s saturated colors and organic line; in particular, Matisse’s stained-glass window installation for the Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence in Southern France sparked the idea for this commission. Designed by Whitney, these windows were produced by Mayer of Munich, the world’s preeminent glass studio since the mid-19th century.
Dance with me Henri, 2022
Katy Siegel
The Baltimore Museum of Art by commission, 2021; the Artist
Co-curated by Katy Rothkopf and Katy Siegal, Baltimore Museum of Art, "Stanley Whitney: Dance WIth Me Henri," November 20, 2022 to April 23, 2023.
On View at the BMA
