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Harvey Littleton (June 14, 1922 – December 13, 2013) was an American glass artist and educator, one of the founders of the studio glass movement; he is often referred to as the "Father of the Studio Glass Movement".
Harvey Littleton is considered the father of the studio glass movement in the United States. After serving wtih the U.S. Signal Corps during World War II, he studied industrial design at the University of Michigan, earning a B.D. degree in 1947. In 1951 he received an M.A. degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Harvey K. Littleton, 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...
Harvey Littleton (June 14, 1922 – December 13, 2013) was an American glass artist and educator, one of the founders of the studio glass movement; he is often referred to as the "Father of the Studio Glass Movement".
Designer: Harvey K. Littleton (American, Corning, New York 1922–2013 Spruce Pine, North Carolina) Date: 1976. Medium: Glass. Dimensions: 16 1/2 × 8 × 4 1/4 in., 14.1 lb. (41.9 × 20.3 × 10.8 cm, 6.4 kg) Classification: Glass. Credit Line: Gift of William D. and Rose D. Barker, 1978. Accession Number: 1978.438
18 de dic. de 2013 · Harvey K. Littleton, an acclaimed glass sculptor and printmaker, is recognized internationally for his groundbreaking work in developing and promoting American studio glass. Glass and invention came naturally to Littleton, who was born in 1922 and raised in Corning, New York.
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.
