Tom Dimitroff sends this along.
Dick Bright’s wonderful comments and picture of Dr. Wahlig’s painting brought a couple of things to mind. Dr. Wahlig has been a student of Tom Buechner for many years. Buechner, once president of Steuben Glass, once director of the Brooklyn Museum, Once director of the Corning Museum of Glass, and once director of the Rockwell Museum, is an accomplished painter especially as a portrait painter. Several of his paintings are hanging in the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Both Buechner and Wahlig love to paint about their “home town” Corning. Thanks, Dick, for showing us all this picture by Dr. Wahlig.

The other thing Dick’s comments brought to my mind is a painting hanging on my wall. As you look at the attached (please excuse to glare from the flash), notice the beautiful bouquet is not in any vase, but is in a Steuben Mirror Black over Green Jade acid cut-back (acid-etched) vase. Best of all, the artist, who painted this is Frederick Carder.