Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
Search Images
About
Keyword
Browse
Combined
Highlights
Search History
All Catalogs
Search:
Artist Browse
Title Browse
Subject Browse
Object Type Browse
Owner Browse
Refine Search
Return to results
> You are only searching:
Art Inventories
More Smithsonian Searches
Who else has...
Prisbrey, Tressa,
Figure -- Head
Homage -- Cleopatra
Architecture
Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Simi Valley
Site-specific
Folk
Sculpture
Grandma
Prisbrey
's Bottle Village, (sculpture).
Artist:
Prisbrey
,
Tressa
,
1896-1988
,
sculptor
.
Title:
Grandma
Prisbrey
's Bottle Village, (sculpture).
Dates:
ca. 1950-1979.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Found objects including glass bottles, dolls, toothbrush, seashells, pencils, headlights, concrete.
Dimensions:
Overall: approx. W. 45 ft. x D. 275 ft.
Description:
Site-specific folk art installation consisting of thirteen buildings and nine structures of various sizes. The building walls are constructed of found glass bottles set in concrete, creating a stained glass effect when viewed from inside. The buildings, or houses, are connected by a mosaic walkway inlaid with various found objects including jewelry, scissors, guns, tools, combs, curlers, nails, nuts and bolts. The houses include: Cleopatra's Bedroom; the Round House; School House; Shell House; Rumpus Room (or Best Room); Cabana; Little Hut; Shot Glass House; the Leaning Tower of Bottle Village; and Pyramid Planter.
Subject:
Figure -- Head
Homage -- Cleopatra
Architecture
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Simi Valley
Site-specific
Folk
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Preserve Bottle Village Committee, P. O. Box 1412, Simi Valley, California 93062
Located Grandma
Prisbrey
's Bottle Village, 4595 Cochran Street, Simi Valley, California
Remarks:
The installation was begun in the 1950s. Materials for the installation were gathered from the city dump. The property the installation is sited on was originally owned by
Prisbrey
and her husband. It was later sold to Morton H. Paster and was in turn owned by John Tynsky, Milton Katz, Phillips Enterprises, Publication Development and Preserve Bottle Village Committee. The installation is listed as a State of California Historic Landmark, as well as a County of Ventura and City of Simi Valley Cultural Landmark. IAS files contain copies of related articles from Los Angeles Times (1976, 1992); the Enterprise (1982, 1992, 1994); Enterprise Sun & News (1977); Folk Art Messenger (Summer 1992); Post-Advocate (Alhambra, CA) (1964); and Glass Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 1 (1983). IAS files contain copy of related excerpt from Kristan Lawson and Anneli S. Rufus' "America Off the Wall: the West Coast", New York: Wiley, 1989, pg. 62. IAS files contain copies of related publications from Preserve Bottle Village.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1994.
Rosen, Seymour, "In Celebration of Ourselves", San Francisco: The San Francisco Examiner, 1979, pg. 156-161.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Rosen, Seymour, "In Celebration of Ourselves", San Francisco: The San Francisco Examiner, 1979, pg. 156-161.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAS CA002068
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Sculpture
CA002068
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
About
| © 2020 Smithsonian |
Terms of Use
|
Privacy
|
Contact