The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2007 Cover: Officers The Fellows of The Corning The Fellows of The Corning Museum of Glass Museum of Glass are among Red /Amber Sliced James B. Flaws the world’s leading glass col- Descending Form , Chairman of the Board Carole Allaire lectors, scholars, dealers, and hot-worked, cased, cut, glassmakers. The objectives E. Marie McKee Gary E. Baker assembled. U.S., Spruce Renée E. Belfer of this organization are (1) President to disseminate knowledge Pine, NC, Harvey K. Robert A. Belfer Littleton (American, Amory Houghton Jr. about the history and art of Mike Belkin glassmaking and (2) to sup- b. 1922), 1984. H. 37.2 Vice President William W. Boeschenstein* cm (2007.4.168). Gift of port the acquisitions program James R. Houghton Alan L. Cameros of the Museum’s Rakow the Ben W. Heineman Sr. Vice President Lt. Gen. Christian Clausen, retired Research Library. Admission Family. Kenneth C. Depew to the fellowship is intended Denise A. Hauselt Thomas P. Dimitroff to recognize accomplishment, Secretary Jay R. Doros and is by invitation. Mark Rogus David Dowler Treasurer Max Erlacher Robert J. Grassi Christopher T. G. Fish Assistant Treasurer Barbara U. Giesicke William Gudenrath David B. Whitehouse Jirˇí Harcuba+ Executive Director Douglas Heller A. C. Hubbard Jr. Trustees Lawrence Jessen Kenneth L. Jobe + Roger G. Ackerman* Dorothy-Lee Jones Peter S. Aldridge Olive Jones + Thomas S. Buechner Leo Kaplan Van C. Campbell* Helena Koenigsmarková + Dale Chihuly Michael Kovacek Patricia T. Dann Dwight P. Lanmon + Robert Duke Harvey K. Littleton James B. Flaws Louise Luther John P. Fox Jr. Kenneth W. Lyon Polly W. Guth Josef Marcolin Ben W. Heineman* John H. Martin +† Amory Houghton Jr.* Gregory A. Merkel Arthur A. Houghton III Kirk J. Nelson + James D. Houghton Barbara H. Olsen James R. Houghton Jutta-Annette Page Itoko Iwata Elmerina L. Parkman Thomas C. MacAvoy* Paul N. Perrot + E. Marie McKee John V. B. Perry Joseph V. Noble*† Richard F. Randles Carl H. Pforzheimer III Peter Rath Carlos A. Picón Rachel Russell Helmut Ricke Prof. Dr. Axel von Saldern + Mark Rogus Josh Simpson Photo Credits Charles A. Ryskamp* John P. Smith All of the photographs Antony E. Snow Jean Sosin in this Annual Report are Peter F. Volanakis Walter Spiegl + by The Corning Museum Wendell P. Weeks Paul J. Stankard of Glass (Nicholas L. Ian McKibbin White Prof. Dr. Rudolf von Strasser Williams and Andrew M. David B. Whitehouse Fortune), with the follow- Lino Tagliapietra ing exceptions: * Trustee Emeritus Dena Tarshis Catherine M. V. Thuro-Gripton Page 6: Rob Vinnedge. † Deceased, Sept. 22, 2007 Kenneth R. Treis Page 13: Russell Johnson. David Watts Page 27: Photo courtesy Eric Martin Wunsch of Ann Nicholson. Rainer Zietz Maris Zuika Pages 28 and 32–35: Photo by Maria Strinni Gill. *Life Fellow Page 36: Photo by Deidi von +Honorary Fellow Schaewen. † Deceased, Sept. 6, 2007 The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2007 An educational institution dedicated to the history, art, and science of glass Chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York April 27, 1951 (6026) Accredited by the American Association of Museums 1973, 1986, 1999 At the December meeting of the Board of effects of electrostatic friction. One of these de­ Executive Trustees, James B. Flaws, who had been trea­ vices follows a design of about 1850 by Georg Director’s surer for the last 10 years, was elected to the Winter. We also purchased a mosaic portrait new post of chairman, and Mark Rogus was of President Theodore Roosevelt, made by the Report elected to replace him as treasurer and to serve Salviati company of Venice, which was exhib­ as a trustee. E. Marie McKee will remain presi­ ited at the St. Louis world’s fair in 1904. dent of the Museum. The board also recorded The Museum acquired two objects made its regret at the death of trustee emeritus Jo­ at the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company. Frictional electrical seph V. Noble. An obituary of Mr. Noble will One of these pieces is a pressed glass candle­ machine, glass, cherry appear in the 2008 volume of the Journal of stick that matches a drawing made by Deming wood, brass, coated Glass Studies. Jarves in 1829. The other object is the first paper, tinfoil, Bakelite, recorded specimen of a sugar bowl similar to lacquer. Austria, Vienna, A. Pichlers Witwe & *** illustrations in a catalog of about 1874. Sohn, Lehrmittelanstalt, We also made three notable additions of cut late 19th century or The Museum’s glass collection is divided glass produced by T. G. Hawkes and Company first third of the 20th into four parts: ancient and Islamic, European, of Corning: a 1904 bowl cut in the “1189” century. OH. 125 cm American, and modern. The most noteworthy pattern; a flowerpot with a silver­plated liner, (2007.3.120). acquisition of ancient glass in 2007 is a Roman made in 1909; and a “Willow” pattern plate bottle with snake­thread decoration, dating of 1911–1915. View from Piney Ridge from the late second to third centuries A.D. The largest and most important acquisition OP59, blown, cased; We made three significant acquisitions of of modern glass was the gift of 112 studio hot-applied cane draw- European glass. The collection of musical in­ glass objects from Ben W. Heineman Sr. and ing. U.S., Penland, NC, struments was enhanced by the addition of a his wife, Natalie G. Heineman. These objects Mark Peiser (American, glass flute made for Charles Ferdinand d’Artois, constituted the balance of the Heineman Col­ b. 1938), 1977. H. 35.2 cm (2007.4.192). Gift the second son of King Charles X of France, lection, joining the 118 objects received in of the Ben W. Heineman in 1814. Glass for scientific purposes is repre­ 2006. Highlights of the 2007 gift include 11 Sr. Family. sented by several objects that demonstrate the Navajo blanket cylinders blown by Dale 2 Chihuly and works by Thomas Patti, David Huchthausen, Mark Peiser, František Vízner, Toots Zynsky, Eric Hilton, and Bertil Vallien. The most significant contemporary Asian acquisition is Glass Sticks, a sculpture created in 2001 by Jun Kaneko. Glass Sticks was a gift of the Museum’s Ennion Society, with funds provided by Laura Houghton, James R. and Maisie Houghton, and the Glass Acquisi­ tions and Exhibitions Fund. Two other noteworthy additions of modern glass are a rare group of drinking glasses de­ signed by Peter Behrens in 1900–1901, and a set of engraved goblets, The Seven Deadly Sins, designed for Steuben by Sidney Waugh about 1956. The drinking glasses were purchased by the Ennion Society, and the goblets were the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Cohn Jr. and Lauren Cohn Fouros. by Philip Pargeter’s Red House Glass Works. Pencil and watercolor *** Finally, we obtained an archive from the city drawing for landscape of Westminster relating to air­raid precautions window. U.S., Tiffany Studios, about 1910. Among the acquisitions of the Rakow Re­ and the dangers of broken glass in the streets search Library were three primary source ma­ during World War II. terials from England. A Collection of Antique A welcome addition to our holdings of rare Graphite drawing, un- Vases . by Henry Moses, published in Lon­ books is Willem Jacob ’s Gravesande’s Physices titled. Czech Republic, don about 1814, served as a mine of classical elementa mathematica (Mathematical elements Prague, Václav Cigler, 2000. motifs. The library’s copy is of particular in­ of physics). ’s Gravesande was the Dutch am­ terest because it belonged to George Woodall, bassador to the court of King George I, and one of the greatest 19th­century cameo glass while he was in London, he befriended leading engravers. The second acquisition was a copy scientists and mathematicians, including Isaac of a late 19th­century trade catalog issued Newton. 3 Additions to the Library’s holdings of origi­ exceptional skill as flameworkers with a pas­ nal works of art included design drawings for sion for the natural world, and they produced a vase by John Northwood and a landscape two groups of models: animals without back­ window by Tiffany Studios; three vitreographic bones (invertebrates) and the Glass Flowers. prints of designs for sculptures by Stanislav “Botanical Wonders” featured models of in­ Libenský, made at the Littleton Studios in vertebrates from Cornell University, models of 1996; and two drawings by Václav Cigler. plants from Harvard’s Botanical Museum, and Mrs. Irene Hollister donated research mate­ original drawings from the Rakow Library. rials accumulated by her late husband, Paul. The exhibition also included a section on the In addition to lecture notes and audio tapes of conservation of the Glass Flowers. interviews with artists, the collection includes “Reflecting Antiquity: Modern Glass In­ photographs of a visit to Czechoslovakia in spired by Ancient Rome” opened at The Getty 1982 and notes for a projected book on the Villa in Malibu, California, on October 18. history of windows. The exhibition is co­curated by the Corning We were delighted when the A&E Televi­ Museum and The J. Paul Getty Museum. It sion Networks awarded a Save Our History contains objects from museums and private grant to support “Stories from the Crystal collections in the United States and Europe. City,” the Library’s local history project about The 19th century was an age of progress, but it glassworkers. was also an age of revivals. “Reflecting Antiq­ uity” explores the ways in which 19th­century *** glassmakers were inspired by the glass of an­ cient Rome. The Museum was involved in the presenta­ The Museum produced books to supple­ tion of two major exhibitions and three smaller ment each of these exhibitions.