Posted 1 year ago
kwqd
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This art glass piece is 8" high x 3.5" top diameter x 3" bottom diameter. It is signed "K Hartman '73" on the bottom. It has a very rough, snapped pontil. Not quite a vase and not quite a goblet.... It think this was an awkward attempt to make one or the other, or neither. I am not certain. Lots of small bubbles in the glass, like modern day Spanish glass. It has a small, handwritten paper tag glued to the base which notes the signature and date. Possibly a student work from John Myers' glass program which was started at Illinois State University in 1970.
This is fairly early in the American Studio Glass movement (1973). I have not been able to identify this artist, though. David Hartman was active at the same time, but his work was already much more sophisticated or would soon be so.
I paid $3 for this at a thrift shop today. Someone was just ahead of me in looking at it but they put it back on the shelf and I snagged it. I try to pick up any late 1960s or early 1970s signed American studio art glass that I find that is inexpensive.
Another great find..
Thanks for your comment, dav2no1! One of these days, I am going to send CW links to John Myers of all of my signed 1970s art glass found in Central Illinois.
Thanks for loving my American studio glass thing, dav2no1, Vynil33rpm, kivatinitz, mikelv85, sklo42, Jenni, Kevin and Drake47!
Thank you, sherrilou, fortapache and vcal!
Thanks you, Steptoe1 and Cisum!