Flower

Cam Langley

1995

  • Titles Flower (Descriptive)
  • Artist Cam Langley, American, 1948 - 2013
  • Medium blown glass
  • Dimensions 9 1/2 × 7 7/8 × 5 1/2 in. (24.1 × 20 × 14 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Anonymous gift, AFI.45.2011, image © Cam Langley
  • Work Type flower
  • Classification Sculpture

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