Monday, December 10, 2012

John Styler reports on the Rockwell CD’s

The Rockwell DVD’s are in their mailers and have the postage stamp. As I receive notice that you renewed they will be labeled and sent to you. We need your membership renewal before the deadline.

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More information on the Toledo Museum of Art. First, Jane Spillman of CMoG adds to our information base.

The Toledo Museum of Art does indeed have a major glass collection and it has been a significant one for many years. The museum was founded in 1901 by Edward Drummond Libbey, and started collecting glass (in addition to paintings and other fine art) in 1915 I think. Because it’s not just a glass museum, its’ glass collection has not grown as rapidly as Corning’s. The curator in charge of the glass collection, and other decorative arts, is Dr. Jutta Page, who was the curator of European Glass at Corning from 1993 until 2003 when she went to Toledo. I am sure that if members have questions about the Carder glass in Toledo’s collection, Dr. Page would be happy to answer them.

Jane Shadel Spillman

Curator of American Glass

The Corning Museum of Glass

One Museum Way, Corning NY

Ph.607-438-5270

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Then we heard from Dr. Page of the Toledo Museum with a correction to the last Gazette on the search ability of the Toledo Museum web site.

Please note that our entire collection of glass objects is now online and searchable at our website.

Many thanks,

Jutta Page

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Then Dick Stark of Bethesda, Maryland notes that the Toledo Museum has a great Tiffany Collection. “yup, they have major tiffany objects”

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At the Toledo Museum of Art website, www.toledomuseum.org the following description of Carder’s Steuben history is described as:

Louis Comfort Tiffany’s most talented competitor in glass was Frederick Carder. Born in England, Carder came to the United States in 1903 and that year founded Steuben Glass, at Corning, New York, with the aid of Thomas G. Hawkes, head of a Corning glass-cutting and -engraving firm. In 1904 he began producing a range of “gold metallic luster” glass, initially in gold or blue. Carder called it Aurene, from aurum, Latin for “gold.” So closely did Aurene resemble Tiffany’s Favrile glass that in 1913 Tiffany filed a lawsuit claiming infringement. The suit was dropped the following year because Tiffany’s patent was too general. Carder’s Aurene formula also differed from Tiffany’s in containing a much larger proportion of lead. During World War I, the Corning Glass Works bought Steuben and made it a division of the company. Carder remained as art director until 1933, when the Steuben division was reorganized and ceased making colored glass

www.cardersteubenclub.org

The Carder Steuben Club, 60 E. Market Street #204, Corning, NY 14830

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2013 Carder Steuben Club annual Symposium will be held at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY from September 19-21, 2013. The festivities will begin with Frederick Carder’s 150th birthday celebration on the evening of September 18, 2013.

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