CUT-OFF Dates Fast Approaching!!

Wednesday, August 28 is the last day that you can make your reservation at the Radisson Hotel at the discounted group rate. If you want to attend the Carder Steuben Club Symposium, hurry and make your reservations! The Radisson Hotel number is (607) 962-5000.

Symposium weekend is busy, with Jazz & Harvest Fest also going on in Corning.

The cut-off date for reservations at the Comfort Inn is September 9, as is the Symposium registration deadline.

Color it Red

I actually have one of these “Steuben Glass Gift Books” addressed in yesterday’s Gazette. Gene Murray. Mine has the same cover as Rande’s, but the print is in solid red, rather than two-color. The photographs inside mine are all black & white, though. Some of the same pieces that Rande mentions are shown in mine, some are not. Unfortunately, it is undated.

Michael Krumme, Los Angeles

Mary Jean Madigan

MJ (Mary Jean) Madigan, author of Steuben Glass: An American Tradition in Crystal, will present at the Carder Steuben Symposium next month in Corning, NY. Her talk is entitled, “Asian Artists in Crystal: Steuben’s Footnote to Cold War Diplomatic History 1954 – 1956.” Created at the behest of the U.S. government during the early Eisenhower years, Steuben’s “Asian Artists in Crystal” collection embraces 36 exquisite modernist sculptures engraved with drawings commissioned from artists in 16 countries from Korea to Egypt — places of diplomatic concern again today. The idea was proposed to Steuben in 1954 by Harold Stassen, then head of the U.S. Foreign Aid Office, whose job was to prevent the spread of Communism by fostering ties of friendship with nations deemed at risk.

Rushed to completion with confidential government funding, “Asian Artists in Crystal” was opened by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at the National Gallery in January, 1954, then traveled to the Metropolitan Museum where the U.N. Secretary General and Ambassadors from each nation welcomed it with great fanfare before it embarked on a tour of each participating nation, arranged by the U.S.I.A.

Today, the complete collection is housed at Sunnylands, the Walter Annenberg Estate in Rancho Mirage, California, which may soon be open to the public as a museum.

Collectors of both Carder Steuben, and PostCarder (or Modern) Steuben won’t want to miss this very interesting presentation.

Register for the Symposium today by going to the Club’s website.

Remember, the registration deadline is September 9.

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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