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Glen William Lukens BIOGRAPHY
1887 Missouri - 1967 Los Angeles, California. Known for: Ceramics-pottery, bowls, glassware.
A Missouri-born ceramist, jewelry designer, and glassmaker, Glen Lukens "helped change the way we see and interpret ceramics today" (Thompson). He is also known for "his landmark innovations in... Read full biography
A Missouri-born ceramist, jewelry designer, and glassmaker, Glen Lukens "helped change the way we see and interpret ceramics today" (Thompson). He is also known for "his landmark innovations in glazes"(Greenbaum) and for his contributions to modernist jewelry. Glen Lukens moved to California in... Read full biography
A Missouri-born ceramist, jewelry designer, and glassmaker, Glen Lukens "helped change the way we see and interpret ceramics today" (Thompson). He is also known for "his landmark innovations in glazes"(Greenbaum) and for his contributions to modernist jewelry. Glen Lukens moved to California in 1925 and settled in Los Angeles. At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in the 1930s, he was a teacher of ceramics, metalwork and jewelry making, and his course "Jewelry Design and... Read full biography
A Missouri-born ceramist, jewelry designer, and glassmaker, Glen Lukens "helped change the way we see and interpret ceramics today" (Thompson). He is also known for "his landmark innovations in glazes"(Greenbaum) and for his contributions to modernist jewelry. Glen Lukens moved to California in 1925 and settled in Los Angeles. At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in the 1930s, he was a teacher of ceramics, metalwork and jewelry making, and his course "Jewelry Design and Making" had a lasting impact on the modernist jewelry first produced in Los Angeles and then elsewhere including through Sam Kramer, who became a famous innovative New York jeweler. Lukens also spent fifteen years as a writer and illustrator for the... Read full biography
A Missouri-born ceramist, jewelry designer, and glassmaker, Glen Lukens "helped change the way we see and interpret ceramics today" (Thompson). He is also known for "his landmark innovations in glazes"(Greenbaum) and for his contributions to modernist jewelry. Glen Lukens moved to California in 1925 and settled in Los Angeles. At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in the 1930s, he was a teacher of ceramics, metalwork and jewelry making, and his course "Jewelry Design and Making" had a lasting impact on the modernist jewelry first produced in Los Angeles and then elsewhere including through Sam Kramer, who became a famous innovative New York jeweler. Lukens also spent fifteen years as a writer and illustrator for the magazine Popular Ceramics. He was a member of the Art Teachers Association of Southern Ca... Read full biography
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A Missouri-born ceramist, jewelry designer, and glassmaker, Glen Lukens "helped change the way we see and interpret ceramics today" (Thompson). He is also known for "his landmark innovations in glazes"(Greenbaum) and for his contributions to modernist jewelry.
Glen Lukens moved to California in 1925 and settled in Los Angeles. At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in the 1930s, he was a teacher of ceramics, metalwork and jewelry making, and his course "Jewelry Design and Making" had a lasting impact on the modernist jewelry first produced in Los Angeles and then elsewhere including through Sam Kramer, who became a famous innovative New York jeweler.
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