Female Torso

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Object Name: 
Female Torso
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning
Accession Number: 
78.4.38
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 28.6 cm, W: 12.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1942
Credit Line: 
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Fred A. Bickford
Web Description: 
Vycor was an experimental low thermal expansion glass that Littleton had access to when he worked at Corning Glass Works. It was during this time that he conceived of bringing hot glass out of the factory and into the artist’s studio.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Bickford, Fred A., Source
1978
Bickford, Mrs. Fred A., Source
1978
Color: 
opaque white glass
Technique: 
slip casting
Material: 
glass
Copyright: 
© Harvey K. Littleton

Description

Primary Description: 
Female Torso. Opaque white Vycor glass; slip-cast. Solid glass nude female torso, standing on a base.

Exhibitions (2)

Founders of American Studio Glass: Harvey K. Littleton
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2011-11-17 through 2013-01-06
West Bridge show at CMoG
Harvey Littleton Retrospective
Venue(s)
High Museum of Art 1984-03 through 1985-12
 

Publications (14)

Venice and American Studio Glass (2020) illustrated, p. 56 (fig. 11a);
[Promotion: Next Poster: Cool Glass] (2017) illustrated, p. 33; BIB# AI103265
Studio Glass Timeline (2012) illustrated, p. 4, top left; BIB# AI86009
Harvey K. Littleton: A Life in Glass (2011) illustrated, p. 11; BIB# 127267
Founders of American Studio Glass: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the American Studio Glass Movement (2011) illustrated, p. 6, top left; BIB# AI86929
Contemporary Glass Sculptures and Panels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2008) illustrated, p. 11 (fig. 12); BIB# 107478
1950'den gunumuze cam heykel sanati (2007) illustrated, p. 23, #26; BIB# 120378
Modern and contemporary art glass (2006) illustrated, slide 23; BIB# 130418
American Studio Glass 1960-1990 (2004) illustrated, p. 49; p. 50; BIB# 81488
Craft in the Machine Age, 1920-1945: The History of Twentieth-century American Craft (1996) illustrated, p. 92; BIB# 45927
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from The Corning Museum of Glass (1989) illustrated, p. 47; BIB# 32803
Harvey K. Littleton: a retrospective exhibition (1984) p. 26; BIB# 22614
Recent Important Acquisitions, 21 (1979) illustrated, p. 127, #36; BIB# AI98081
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1978 (1979) p. 5; BIB# AI97144