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  Harlan W Butt

  Environment Vessel #6: Paradise Lost (Environment Series)

  2023
  Copper, enamel, silver, gold
  10" x 6" x 6"

  $8,000

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  Harlan W Butt

  Environment Vessel #6: Paradise Lost (Environment Series)

  2023
  Copper, enamel, silver, gold
  10" x 6" x 6"

  $8,000

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  Harlan W Butt

  Extinction Vessel #9: Genocide (Extinction Series)

  2023
  Copper, enamel, silver.
  7.5" x 8" x 8"

  $8,000

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• Harlan W Butt

  Extinction Vessel #9: Genocide (Extinction Series)

  2023
  Copper, enamel, silver.
  7.5" x 8" x 8"

  $8,000

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• Harlan W Butt

  Guadalupe Mountains Vessel #3 (National Parks Series)

  2023
  Copper, enamel, silver
  12" x 4.5" x 4.5"

  $7,000

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• Harlan W Butt

  Guadalupe Mountains Vessel #3 (National Parks Series)

  2023
  Copper, enamel, silver
  12" x 4.5" x 4.5"

  $7,000

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• Harlan W Butt

  Shenandoah (National Parks Series)

  2023
  Copper, enamel
  17" x 14" x 6"

  $9,000

  "The surface imagery on Shenandoah #4 was created from photographs taken at the National Park. The photos of foliage were then transferred to Photoshop and turned into high contrast black and white digital images. These, in turn, were loaded onto the Critcut CNC cutting machine and stencils were cut out of heavy paper. The stencils were placed over the vessel (which had a previously fired enamel surface) and more enamel was sifted on using a binder to hold it in place. The piece was then fired. This stencil process was repeated several times in various colors."

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• Harlan W Butt

  Shenandoah (National Parks Series)

  2023
  Copper, enamel
  17" x 14" x 6"

  $9,000

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• Harlan W Butt

  Artemis (Mythology Series)

  2023
  Copper, enamel, silver
  7" x 8" x 8"

  $8,000

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• Harlan W Butt

  Artemis (Mythology Series)

  2023
  Copper, enamel, silver
  7" x 8" x 8"

  $8,000

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As an artist working in metal and enamel and writing haiku poetry, I have created vessels, which reflect themes, colors, textures and the beauty, severity and mystery of the natural world. The Earth, its plants and animals, geography and landscape, inspire me to create and to try to convey some of the emotional response to being present in wilderness. My ‘Extinction Vessels’ comment on the vanishing wildlife from the planet caused by humans. My ‘Environment Vessels’ comment on how we interact with the planet. I am also interested in the stories we have told ourselves throughout history in an attempt to give meaning to our journey.

As they slip away,
The web is unraveling,
Thread by knot by thread.

Harlan W. Butt
2023

  

 

“Harlan W. Butt is considered one of the world’s premier contemporary enamelists, having appeared in dozens of exhibitions and having his artwork added to numerous private and public collections over the span of his forty-year career. As an enamelist who melds time-honored techniques such as cloisonné, Limoges painting, and other processes, Butt has transformed expectations of the medium. ”

– Cindi Strauss, Sara and Bill Morgan Curator of Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (From exhibition catalog
Extraordinary journey: 40 Years of Art Metalwork by Harlan W. Butt)

Butt’s work has been exhibited internationally and is represented in the permanent collections of the Enamel Arts Foundation in Los Angeles, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of Art & Design in New York City , the Yale University Art Gallery, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Art, the Mint Museum of Art & Craft in Charlotte, NC, the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA, the Wichita Center for the Arts, the National Gallery of Australia, the Cloisonné Enamelware Fureai Museum in Ama City, Japan and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.