The Three Graces by Max Erlacher

The exhibit was “Cameo glass: masterpieces from 2000 years of glassmaking”, held at the Corning Museum of Glass in 1982. The exhibit catalog mentions both Max Erlacher and Barry Sautner, but the actual catalog, unfortunately, does not contain illustrations of their work. Leonard and Gypsy Rakow, co-curators of the exhibit with Sidney Goldstein, were great supporters of Sautner, and the Rakow Library has many slides of his work. The Library also has much information on Max.

Gail P. Bardhan

Reference and Research Librarian

Rakow Library

The Corning Museum of Glass

Five Museum Way

Corning NY 14830

bardhangp@cmog.org

Phone 607-438-5315

Barry Sautner

Barry Sautner initially used blanks made by Doug Merritt of Vandermark Merritt Studios, where Barry worked and began his carving career. Later on when he began working on multi-layer blanks he obtained them from both Vandermark and Lotton. I do not believe Barry ever worked on Webb blanks. However, we have two English Peachblow pieces in our personal collection, one of which was engraved by Max Erlacher and the other was carved (using sandblasting) by Doug Merritt. This is the same technique that Barry used and is the norm for contemporary cameo work.

David Goldstein, Naples, FL