Interrupted Loop Series

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Interrupted Loop Series
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NC, Spruce Pine
Accession Number: 
2007.4.167
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 39.8 cm, W: 40.4 cm, D: 20.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1978
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Ben W. Heineman Sr. Family
Web Description: 
In 1977, Littleton retired from teaching and moved from Verona, Wisconsin, to Spruce Pine, North Carolina, where he lives today. In his new studio, he switched from melting his own colors to the German commercial color bars, which gave him a much broader palette. He began to make the "Loop" sculptures, in which he continued to explore color, movement, and form.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Habatat Galleries Inc., Former Collection
1992
Heineman, Ben W. Sr. Family, Source
Oak, Jon, Former Collection
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
opaque white glass
Technique: 
hot-working
cased glass
cutting
bonding
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
Harvey K. Littleton, c 1978
signature
: 
Engraved along short edge of base c = copyright sign
Copyright: 
© Harvey K. Littleton

Description

Primary Description: 
Hot-worked and cased opaque white glass, cut, bonded; glass 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
Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Contemporary Glass Gallery and Changing Exhibitions Gallery
 

Publications (5)

Harvey K. Littleton: A Life in Glass (2012-07) illustrated, p. 27;
The American Studio Glass Movement...Go Out, Find Academic Employment, and Start More Glass Programs (2012) illustrated, p. 6; BIB# AI89306
Founders of American Studio Glass: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the American Studio Glass Movement (2011) illustrated, p. 6, third from left; BIB# AI86929
Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection (2009) illustrated, p. 197, pl. 105; BIB# 109983
Harvey Littleton: an exhibition organized by the Mint Museum of Art (1979) illustrated, back cover; BIB# 30783