Reference Guide

This reference guide was compiled by the Museum's library and archives staff to support the exhibition Glass Today: American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections. It includes:

Books and journal articles about most of the glass artists in the exhibition

Books about American studio glass and contemporary glass history

Archival material pertaining to the Museum's May Show

Videotapes about individual artists and glassmaking

Slides of objects in the exhibition and other representative works of art by artists in the exhibition

Selected glass-related web sites

Most of the publications and other materials cited here are accessible to qualified patrons in the Ingalls Library (x530), slide library (x547), and museum archives (x492). Please call the extensions listed above at (216) 421-7340 to inquire about onsite access regulations. Many of the publications cited are also available at public libraries.

Archival material

Cleveland Museum of Art Records of the Department of Contemporary Art- May Show Files. The May Show was an annual juried exhibition of work by Cleveland-area artists held at the Museum from 1919-1993. These files consist of approximately twenty cubic feet of documents from the first to the last May Show. Because the May Show included glass as a medium for competition, the files also document other artists in the Cleveland area who worked in glass. The following artists, represented in the Glass Today exhibition, have biographies in the May Show files:

Edris Eckhardt
Henry Halem
Jack Ink
William R. McKinney
Daniel Rothenfeld
Mary Kay Simoni
Mark Sudduth
Mark Vance
Brent Kee Young

The Archives also has an audio tour of an exhibition of Dale Chihuly's works held at the Dallas Museum of Art in 1994. It includes Chihuly's comments on each piece represented in that exhibition.

Videotapes

Alchemy in Light: Making Art Glass. Roaring Rabbit Pictures, 1995.

Beadmaking. Modern Alchemy, 1994.

Chihuly: Glass Master. Ringe / Rydman Production, 1988.

Contemporary Glass: The Collector Series. Business Arts and Key Pictures, 1994.

European Art Glass 1880 - 1939. Award Video and Film, 1993.

Fragile Art: Midwestern Heritage of Glassmaking. Bowling Green University, 1986.

Glass Artistry in the Making: Fenton since 1905. Fenton Glass Gift Shop, 1992.

New American Glass: Focus West Virginia. Huntington Galleries, 1976.

Touch of Glass. American Craft Council, 1978.

Venetian Glass: The Collector Series. Award Video and Film, 1994.

The World of Paperweight Masterpieces. Corning Museum of Glass, 1991.

Slides

The Museum's slide library owns over 700 slides relating to contemporary glass:

342 slides for objects represented in the exhibition

372 slides depicting additional glass works by artists represented in the exhibitions as well as glass works by other artists

Web Sites

Artist web sites
Chihuly, Dale
Halem, Henry
Littleton, Harvey K.
Myers, Joel Philip
Ritter, Richard Q.
Schaechter, Judith
Stankard, Paul
Walentynowicz, Janusz with frames, without frames

Museum web sites
The Corning Museum of Glass
The National Museum of American Art
The Toledo Museum of Art frames only

Other glass-related web sites
Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass
The Glass Art Society
GLASS LINE Newsletter
Glass Studio mostly graphical, mostly text
Habatat Galleries
Pilchuck Glass School
Rhode Island School of Design with frames, text only