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Bob Snodgrass, Oregon DFO 2019 (Photo by Connor McHugh/Pyroscopic) Bob Snodgrass blowing glass in his VW Bus at DFO in Oregon 2019. (Photo by Connor McHugh/PYROSCOPIC) Bob Snodgrass is an American lampworker known for his contributions to the art of glass pipe-making and glass art. He began lampworking in 1971 while learning from and working ...
In 2000, Chihuly's commission from the Victoria and Albert Museum for a 30-foot-high (9.1 m), blown-glass chandelier dominates the museum's main entrance. Chihuly's The Sun was on temporary display until January 2006 at Kew Gardens, London, England. The piece is 13 feet (4 m) high.
His machines could produce glass bottles at a rate of 240 per minute, and reduce labor costs by 80%. [4] Owens and Libbey entered into a partnership and the company was renamed the Owens Bottle Company in 1919. In 1929 the company merged with the Illinois Glass Company to become the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. [5] [6]
Chihuly has also produced a sizable volume of "Irish cylinders", [22] which are more modest in conception than his blown glass works. For his exhibition in Jerusalem, in 1999–2000, in addition to the glass pieces, he had enormous blocks of transparent ice brought in from an Alaskan artesian well and formed a wall, echoing the stones of the ...
Degenhart Paperweight and Glass Museum, Cambridge, closed in 2011, portion of the collection relocated to the Museum of American Glass located in Weston, WV [280] Ely Chapman Foundation West African Museum, Marietta [281] Hauck House Museum, Cincinnati, no longer open as a museum; Hopalong Cassidy Museum, Cambridge, destroyed by fire in 2016 [282]
Labino working on a piece of glass at his workshop in October of 1971. Dominick Labino (December 4, 1910 – January 10, 1987) was an American internationally known scientist, inventor, artist and master craftsman in glass.
When the dazzling 16-foot-high leaded stained- glass window arrived in Canton in 1913, it made front-page news—and postponed the new church’s dedication by a week because of a shipping delay.
When no grants for a hot glass studio had materialized by the fall of 1961, Otto Wittmann, director of the Toledo Museum of Art, suggested that Littleton consider giving a glassblowing seminar at the museum, and offered the use of a storage shed on the museum grounds. The first of two workshops was held in this makeshift facility from March 23 ...