Czech Tango Glass

from Leigh Alan Demrow of Janesville, WI

Alan, Alfredo Villanueva-Collado, retired professor and recognized authority on Czech glass has a Google website where he shows decorated and one color Tango glass. If any club members would like to go there I’ve included the address to copy into their browser. Thanks, L.A.D.

https://sites.google.com/site/loetzandglass/Home

27 Artists

from an article by Tina Oldknow, Senior Curator for Modern and Contemporary Glass, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York which appeared on page 94 of the January/February 2015 issue of The Magazine Antiques in the Museum Accessions section.

Inspired by a conversation with Henri Matisse, beginning in 1937 John Monteith Gates, then the design director at Steuben Glass, enlisted twenty-seven well-known European and American artists to create designs for glass, among them Matisse, Thomas Hart Benton, Salvador Dali, Isamu Noguchi, Georgia O’Keefe, and Fernand Leger. The series was made in 1939 and exhibited in the company’s New York City showroom in January 1940. Steuben proposed a limited edition of six of each design, five to be sold and one to be kept by the glassworks. However, a full edition of all of the designs was not completed, Steuben did not keep a set, and the company did not document how many were produced, so the exact number of each design made is unknown. Leger’s mold-blown vase engraved with a cubist composition is the ninth from the series to enter the Corning Museum of Glass collection, which also holds design drawings for twenty-one of the twenty-seven.

Vase designed by Fernand Leger (1881-1955) for the “Twenty-Seven Contemporary Artists” series made by Steuben Glass, Corning, New York, 1939. Mold-blown glass with engraved decoration; height 10 5/8 inches, diameter 11 1/8 inches. Corning Museum of Glass, gift of the Ennion Society. (Ed. note: Text accompanying the magazine photograph – link below).
same perfume–different lighting