Vessel

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Object Name: 
Vessel
Maker(s): 
Littleton, Harvey K. (American, 1922-2013), Artist
Place Made: 
United States, WI, Madison
Accession Number: 
66.4.47
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 11.4 cm, W: 16.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1965
Web Description: 
The Johns-Manville #475 marbles are a low-melting-point glass material that was supplied by Dominick Labino to the 1962 Toledo Workshop participants. They were widely used during the early years of American studio glass.

More Info

Department: 
Modern and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Littleton, Harvey K. (American, 1922-2013), Source
1966
Category: 
Contemporary
Studio Glass
Technique: 
glassblowing
Material: 
glass
silver oxide
Inscription: 
H K Littleton / 1965
signature
: 
above base
Copyright: 
© Harvey K. Littleton

Description

Primary Description: 
Fiberglas marbles, #475; blown, silver oxide decoration.

Exhibitions (3)

Founders of American Studio Glass: Harvey K. Littleton
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2011-11-17 through 2013-01-06
West Bridge show at CMoG
Decades in Glass: The 60's
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2005-11-17 through 2006-04-02
Corning Incorporated Gallery 2006-07-12 through 2007-01-06
 
Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
State Hermitage Museum 1990-09-15 through 1990-10-21
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04

Publications (20)

Glass: Virtual, Real (2016) illustrated, p . 23; BIB# 167899
Contemporary Glass Vessels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2015) illustrated, p. 30, 58-59 (fig. 53, plate 6); BIB# 149403
Remembering the Founder of American Studio Glass (2014) illustrated, p. 16, left; BIB# AI98360
The American Studio Glass Movement...Go Out, Find Academic Employment, and Start More Glass Programs (2012) illustrated, p. 7; BIB# AI89306
Color Ignited: Glass 1962-2012 (2012) illustrated, p. 95, plate 50, p. 189; BIB# 130144
Past and Present (2012) illustrated, p. 26, top left; BIB# 135030
Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass 2012 (2011-12) illustrated, p. 4;
In Perspective: Curator's Eye (2011-09) illustrated, p. 98; BIB# AI103338
Harvey K. Littleton: A Life in Glass (2011) illustrated, p. 69; BIB# 127267
Corning Museum of Glass (2009-01) illustrated, pp. 8-9; BIB# 109342
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (2006) illustrated, p. 82; BIB# 96551
Modern and contemporary art glass (2006) illustrated, slide 26; BIB# 130418
The encyclopedia of modern marbles, spheres & orbs (2005) illustrated, p. 25 fig. 21; BIB# 88983
Plastik sanatlarda cam malzemenin uygulanisi (2003) illustrated, p. 67, fig. 3.26; BIB# 120381
The Sixties: decade of design revolution (1998) p. 218, illus.; BIB# 60887
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, p. 128, #127; BIB# 35679
Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 64, 95, pl. 98; BIB# 33046
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, p. 91, #91; BIB# 34475
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 51; BIB# 32803
Thirty Years of New Glass, 1957-1987, from the Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass (1987) p. 4; BIB# 2318