Mid Century Enamel Glass Art By Marie and Dick Eyres BILLINGS, MONTANA VERY RARE!

RARE 3 PANEL ON ORIGINAL FIBER BACKGROUND OVERALL 21” x 41” EACH SQUARE MEASURES 13” X 11” SIGNED ORIGINAL VINTAGE 1960S - ENAMEL-ON-STEEL (NOT COPPER) PAINTING / PLAQUE CREATED BY BILLINGS, MONTANA HUSBAND-AND-WIFE ARTISTS RICHARD KOHL “DICK” EYRES (1906-1992) & MARIE KROM EYRES (1905-1994) THAT DISPLAYS DAISYS RENDERED IN WHITE, BLUE, YELLOW, AND GREEN!

Marie and Dick Eyres, a husband-and-wife team, specialized in the process which combines vitreous enamel and steel in multiple art forms. Vitreous enamel, as the name implies, is a glass which when pulverized can be applied in a dry or liquid state to metal backgrounds. In order to fuse enamel glasses to metal at temperatures as low as 1500 F, the borosilicate and lead varieties are used. They may be transparent, opaque, opalescent, black, white, or colored. Copper is most often used as the metal component of smaller enamel art pieces. The Eyres perfected their process using cobalted steel instead; this allows for the beauty and expansion of larger pieces which are less subject to bending or fracturing the glass.

In the process of enameling, the steel surface is cleaned and cobalted, the enamel compound of silicates and additives is applied, and then fusion is done with several minutes of high heat. Withdrawn from the kiln, the molten enamel cools to a thin film of glass on metal. Successive firings, options in the manner of application, and diverse ways of combining enamel with graphics, painting and sculpture offer the artist limitless possibilities. Vitreous enamel fused to steel creates a bond that defies time and weather. It has a permanence, a depth of color and a complexity of light refraction found in no other medium.

Marie and Dick worked at their studio in Billings, Montana until Dick's death. Their rare art is displayed publicly and privately throughout the United States. #rare #Enamelart#fusedart #fusedglass