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Artist Glen Lukens (American, 1887-1967)

Dateabout 1955

DimensionsH: 4 in. (10.1 cm);
Diam.: 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm)

MediumGlass; slumped

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1992.45

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 02A, Wolfe

Label TextGlen Lukens is best known for his ceramics, and he applied that expertise to forming warm glass. In the 1940s Lukens discovered that he could slump glass windowpanes using the same molds he employed for shaping his ceramic vessels. As with his clay, Lukens strove to create glass forms with a rough texture and tactile nuance not seen until the revived interest in pâte-de-verre (fused glass “paste”) and cast glass later in the 20th century.Published ReferencesPage, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 188, repr. (col.) p. 189.Comparative ReferencesSee also Los Angeles, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University; Alfred, New York, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery of the New York State College of Ceramics; New York, American Craft Museum, Glen Lukens: Pioneer of the Vessel Aesthetic, 1982. Cf. McCloud, Mac, "Glen Lukens: Pioneer Ceramist," AMERICAN CRAFT, 42, 3 (June/July 1982), 12-15.