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Object NameSculpture

Artist Harvey K. Littleton (American, 1922-2013)

Made FromGlass

Date1987

Techniquecased, hot-worked, cut

SizeOverall H: 82 cm, W (approx): 48 cm, D (approx): 35.5 cm

Accession Number2006.4.112

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Founders of American Studio Glass: Harvey K. Littleton

Interpretive Notes

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Littleton, who founded the American Studio Glass movement with the glass research scientist Dominick Labino, was born and raised in Corning. During the 1980s, Littleton created new forms for glass sculpture by casing layers of barium/potash glass tinted with different Kugler colors. The sense of arrested movement is characteristic of Littleton’s sculptures of this period, as is the way in which the colors are multiplied and magnified inside the glass.

Place Made

United States, NC, Spruce Pine

Physical DescriptionBarium/potassium glass with multiple cased overlays of colorless and Kugler colors, yellow/blue, orange/yellow, yellow/red; hot-worked, cut. The object consists of six individual parts of twisted, curling and spontaneous shapes with cone-shaped bases and a thick circular pad.
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