Nov 17, 2009
Issue 742
Scott Hansen sent along the November issue of The Journal he picked up while antique hunting. The centerfold is captioned “Tiffany Treasures at Corning Museum of Glass.” So why you ask does the Carder Steuben Club’s Vice President send this along? Well, because as the article notes, that “The Corning Museum of Glass is home to the world’s most comprehensive collection of glass.” Yes, they co-sponsor our Club’s annual Symposium. They are announcing the opening of “Tiffany Treasurer: Favrile Glass from Special Collections” to be showcased from November 1 through October 31, 2010. And such beauty of photographs of some Tiffany works for this article. The article also points out that, “The Corning Museum of Glass also hosts the largest permanent gallery of glass by Tiffany’s chief artistic and commercial rival, Frederick Carder, who was Steuben Glass Works’ manager and principal designer from 1903 to 1932…visitors will be able to examine and compare a variety of blown works by these two contemporaries.” The article also notes that “The Rakow Research Library (at CMoG) also holds in its collection archives from Frederick Carder and from Arthur J. Nash, Tiffany’s master glassmaker.”