Exploded Green Vase Maker: Harvey K. Littleton (American, 1922–2013)

1965

American Decorative Arts

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design
Medium

Blown soda-lime glass

Dimensions

11 1/4 × 6 1/4 × 4 1/4 in. (28.575 × 15.875 × 10.795 cm)

Credit Line

Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund

Accession Number

2009.22.1

Geography

Made in Verona, Wisconsin

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Collection of the artist, 1965–2009; [offered through Maurine Littleton Gallery (artist's daughter), Washington, D.C., 2009]; by purchase to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. 2009
Bibliography
  • John Stuart Gordon, "American Glass: The Collections at Yale," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (November 2, 2018), 30–31, ill
  • John Stuart Gordon, American Glass: The Collections at Yale (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2018), 258–59, 272, no. 134
  • Diane C. Wright, "New Glass at the Yale University Art Gallery," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2011), 26, 28, fig. 1
  • Corning Museum of Glass, "Recent Important Acquisitions," New Glass Review 31 (2010), 110, ill
  • "Acquisitions 2009," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009), 128, ill
Object copyright
Not Assigned
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Object/Work type

vases

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