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19 de dic. de 2013 · University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor Emeritus Harvey K. Littleton, the trail-blazing artist who founded the nation’s first university-based studio program in art glass more than five decades ago, passed away on Dec. 13 at his home in Spruce Pine, N.C. He was 91. Littleton came to the UW in 1951 to teach ceramics.
5 de ene. de 2014 · Harvey K. Littleton was an artist who helped found the so-called studio glass movement in the United States, developing and teaching do-it-yourself techniques that freed glassblowing from the cumbersome protocols of factory production and made molten glass almost as easy to work with in the studio as wet clay. Beginning in the late 1950s, Mr ...
Harvey K. Littleton is considered the father of the studio glass movement in the United States. Littleton is known for developing and teaching techniques that freed glassblowing from the traditional protocols of factory production, allowing artists to work with glass in the studio as they might work with clay.
Harvey K. Littleton is internationally recognized as the pioneering champion and founding father of the American studio glass movement. In March and June of 1962, after years of research, Littleton led two experimental workshops at the Toledo Museum of Art. There he proved that artists could mix and melt glass in small furnaces and blow glass ...
HARVEY K. LITTLETON (American, b. 1922) View Available Artwork; Born Corning, New York Education 1951 M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 1947 Bachelor of Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1945 Brighton School of Art, Brighton, England Professional Experience
Harvey K. Littleton: A Life in Glass: Founder of America’s Studio Glass Movement Joan Falconer Byrd New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications, 2011. xii + 194 pp.; illustrated throughout. Cloth $45.00 ISBN: 9780847838189 Dale Chihuly once observed that “without a doubt, Harvey Littleton was the force behind the Studio
Harvey K. Littleton: A Life in Glass. $45.00. Please email the gallery to request a copy. Blue/Ruby Combination Arc. (1988) Lemon/Blue Sliced Arc. (1988) Red Twisted 90 Degree Horizontal Form. (1980)
