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Carafe "C"

Object number2023.182.1

Artist Irene Pasinski Sailer (1923 - 2002)

Date1960

MediumPaper; Colored pencil; Paint; Crayon(?)

Credit LineGift of William Kolano

DescriptionMixed media design drawing on rectangular textured blue construction paper. Media includes graphite, paint, colored pencil, and possibly crayon. Drawn/painted at center of paper is black, white, blue, and gray glass carafe or hottle; carafe appears to be colorless glass with three gray bands around shoulder below black plastic(?) insulated neck and black plastic(?) lid. Carafe stands on a thin horizontal black line. Below drawing is white handwritten text between two graphite lines. Reverse has dark adhesive residue around the perimeter and zig-zag across center.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth (Object only): 16.125 x 12.875 x 0.031 in. (41 x 32.7 x 0.1 cm)
Height x Width x Depth (Framed): 22.25 x 18.75 x 1.75 in. (56.5 x 47.6 x 4.4 cm)
MarksFront has handwritten white colored pencil text below the drawing "CARAFE "C" - THATCHER GLASS CO. - MCKEE DIVISION - 1960".
Historical NotesDesign drawing for Carafe "C". Part of a collection related to the career of Irene Pasinski Sailer. Irene Pasinski Sailer was an artist, the founder of Irene Pasinski Associates, and a founder of the Carnival of Three Rivers which later became the Three Rivers Regatta. She was born on October 14, 1923, to Anthony and Mary Waichler. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1945 from Carnegie Tech, now Carnegie Mellon University, she attended Ecole du Louvre, and Institut d'Art Applique a l'Industrie in Paris, France on a Fulbright Fellowship. Pasinski returned to Pittsburgh and founded Irene Pasinski Associates, a product design firm, in 1956 where she remained the director until 1995. Her firm designed products for Lenox China and The Franklin Mint, among others, and designed signage for the Pittsburgh International Airport. While building her business, Pasinski concentrated on her career as an artist exhibiting in Pittsburgh and New York and serving as a board member and as a president of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. She began in the 1940s by creating abstract impressionistic paintings. Later, she worked in mixed media sculptural and relief forms. Pasinski's influence in Pittsburgh went beyond the art world. She initiated the Carnival of Three Rivers in 1976 which became the Three Rivers Regatta, an annual event since 1977. Pasinski also served on the board of directors of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts where she was also president. Pasinski died on June 19, 2002 in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. She was preceded in death by two husbands; Edmund Pasinski and Paul G. Sailer.

Related institution Thatcher Glass Company

Related institution Carnegie Mellon University

Related institution Irene Pasinski Associates

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