1895 - 1959
Sculpture
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1908/1912 London, England - 1999/2004 Riverside, Illinois. Known for: Fused glass, glass design, household objects, sculptures, ornamentation.
The Higgins Studio, home of “modern miracles with everyday glass” was founded in 1948 by Michael and Frances Higgins. Today, the miracles continue, under the leadership of the Higgins’ chosen... Read full biography
The Higgins Studio, home of “modern miracles with everyday glass” was founded in 1948 by Michael and Frances Higgins. Today, the miracles continue, under the leadership of the Higgins’ chosen successors, Louise and Jonathan Wimmer. This direct line of continuity means that glass objects in the... Read full biography
The Higgins Studio, home of “modern miracles with everyday glass” was founded in 1948 by Michael and Frances Higgins. Today, the miracles continue, under the leadership of the Higgins’ chosen successors, Louise and Jonathan Wimmer. This direct line of continuity means that glass objects in the distinctive Higgins style will continue to enchant collectors for many years to come. Michael and Frances Higgins, who met at the Chicago Institute of Design, were pioneers in the rediscovery and... Read full biography
The Higgins Studio, home of “modern miracles with everyday glass” was founded in 1948 by Michael and Frances Higgins. Today, the miracles continue, under the leadership of the Higgins’ chosen successors, Louise and Jonathan Wimmer. This direct line of continuity means that glass objects in the distinctive Higgins style will continue to enchant collectors for many years to come. Michael and Frances Higgins, who met at the Chicago Institute of Design, were pioneers in the rediscovery and refinement of the ancient art of glass fusing. Because it is so labor-intensive, fusing had, by the mid-twentieth century, been all but abandoned in favor of glass blowing. Essentially, fusing is the creation of a “glass sandwich”. On one piece of... Read full biography
The Higgins Studio, home of “modern miracles with everyday glass” was founded in 1948 by Michael and Frances Higgins. Today, the miracles continue, under the leadership of the Higgins’ chosen successors, Louise and Jonathan Wimmer. This direct line of continuity means that glass objects in the distinctive Higgins style will continue to enchant collectors for many years to come. Michael and Frances Higgins, who met at the Chicago Institute of Design, were pioneers in the rediscovery and refinement of the ancient art of glass fusing. Because it is so labor-intensive, fusing had, by the mid-twentieth century, been all but abandoned in favor of glass blowing. Essentially, fusing is the creation of a “glass sandwich”. On one piece of enamel-coated glass, a design is created, either drawn with colored enamels, or pieced with glass segments. Over this, another pi... Read full biography
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Austria. 1906 - 1986
Art deco abstract sculpture, heads, small brass figure
Italy, Austria. 1917 - 2007
Avant-garde furniture design, ceramics, jewelry, handcrafted glass
Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts / United Kingdom. 1931 - 1987
Mixed-metal modernist sculpture, furniture design
California / China. 1910 - 2008
Collaborative sculpture, Artisan House-even signed pieces are studio works
United States. 1863 - 1925
Pottery
New York, North Carolina. 1913 - 2005
Modernist ceramic pottery, teaching
Illinois. 1865 - 1940
Teco pottery designer
Illinois. 1853 - 1935
Pottery, crafts
United States. 1876 - 1937
Rookwood artist
Iowa, California, New York. 1911 - 1989
Ceramic artist, teaching, mural painting
California, Missouri. 1887 - 1967
Ceramics-pottery, bowls, glassware
Italy. 1915 - 2011
Sculpture, sculpture, ceramics, metalwork, multimedia
Illinois / United Kingdom. 1919 - 2009
Mod ceramics, stone carving, bronze sculpture
Italy. 1909 - 1969
Abstract form thickly glazed ceramic and stoneware sculpture
California, Colorado. 1921 - 2011
Ceramic sculpture-raku, educator
New Mexico, California / Poland. 1909 - 1992
Modernist-leaning landscape
California. 1914 - 2016
Pottery-ceramic abstraction
Ohio. 1869 - 1950
Townscape and landscape painting, etching, pottery decoration
France. 1835/45 - 1917
Ceramics, decorative arts, metallic glaze pottery
California. 1893 - 1998
Ceramic vessels, collage
Pennsylvania, California. Born 1949
Sound and whimsical nature sculptures
Illinois. Born 1937
Monumental sculpture, celeb portrait
Nebraska / Japan. Born 1942
Ceramic ovoid monolith-dangos
Collaborative pottery
Ohio, Pennsylvania. 1907 - 1994
Ceramic vessels, design
Mississippi. 1857 - 1918
Pottery-abstract and folk art
California. 1930 - 1992
Funk ceramic pop image ceramics, mixed media
Washington. Born 1941
Large scale abstract blown glass
Oregon, California. 1943 - 2013
Whimsical sculpture-frogs, foodstuff, funk art, teaching
New York, California / Japan. 1904 - 1988
Abstract sculpture, mod mediums
France. 1860 - 1945
Art deco glass design, abstraction