Glass artists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 66. Chapters: René Lalique, Dale Chihuly, Harvey Littleton, Dan Dailey, Erwin Eisch, John Littleton and Kate Vogel, Júlia Báthory, Josiah McElheny, Paul Housberg, Michael Taylor, Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová, Dominick Labino, Andrzej Glowacki, Mitsugi Ohno, Richard Harned, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, Hans Godo Frabel, Marvin Lipofsky, Linda MacNeil, James Giles, Martin Demaine, Richard Ritter, Sam Herman, Marcus Amerman, Frederick Carder, Émile Gallé, Therman Statom, Raymond Persinger, Preston Singletary, Christopher Ries, Sarah Hall, Andy Paiko, Kazuo Kadonaga, FrantiSek Janák, Vicke Lindstrand, David Patchen, Sergio Redegalli, Fritz Dreisbach, Dante Marioni, Judy Jensen, Paul Joseph Stankard, Clifford Rainey, Claude Horan, William Beilby, Stephen Rolfe Powell, Peter Newsome, Salvador Ysart, Jean-Pierre Canlis, Mary Gregory, Oluf Tostrup, Lino Tagliapietra, Jeff Ballard, Michael Glancy, Zoja Trofimiuk, Gary Beecham, Ivo Lill, Jess E. DuBois, List of glass artists, Martin Blank, Rick Mills, DeWain Valentine, Meeli Kõiva, Miroslav Havel, Margery Clinton, William Morris, Kyohei Fujita, Abraham van Linge, Vic Bamforth, Flo Perkins, Richard Marquis, Daniël Theys, Michael Dupille, Ulla-Mari Brantenberg, Dino Martens, Cappy Thompson, Jay Musler, Michael Harris, Mundy Hepburn, Zachary Jorgenson, Mats Jonasson, Ginny Ruffner, Muller Frères. Excerpt: Harvey Littleton (born June 14, 1922) is an American educator and glass artist. Born in Corning, New York, he grew up in the shadow of Corning Glassworks, where his father headed Research and Development during the 1930s. Expected by his father to enter the field of physics, Littleton instead chose a career in art, gaining recognition first as a ceramist and later as a glassblower and sculptor in glass. In the latter capacity he was very influential, organizing the first glassblowing seminar aimed at the studio artist in 1962, on the grounds of the Toledo Museum of Art. His aim was to take the manufacture of glass out of its industrial setting and put it within the reach of the studio artist. In his role as an educator, Littleton was an "...outspoken and eloquent advocate of university education in the arts." He organized the first hot glass program at an American university (the University of Wisconsin-Madison) and promoted the idea of glass as a course of study in university art departments in the Midwest and northeastern United States. Several of Littleton's students went on to disseminate the study of glass art throughout the U.S., including Marvin Lipofsky, who started a glass program at the University of California at Berkley and Dale Chihuly, who developed the glass program at the Rhode Island School of Design and later was a founder of Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington. Littleton retired from teaching in 1976 to focus on his own art. Exploring the inherent qualities of the medium, he worked in series with simple forms to draw attention to the complex interplay of transparent glass with multiple overlays of thin color. Harvey Kline Littleton was born in Corning, New York where his father, Dr. Jesse T. Littleton, Jr., was Director of Research for Corning Glass Works. A physicist, Dr. Littleton is remembered today as the developer of Pyrex glassware. Harvey Littleton's introduction to the world of glass began when he was six. On Saturdays his father