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Interviewee:

McGlauchlin, Tom, 1934-2011  Search this

Interviewer:

Byrd, Joan Falconer, 1939-  Search this

Subject:

Bailey, Clayton  Search this

Day, Russell  Search this

Dreisbach, Fritz  Search this

Labino, Dominick  Search this

Leafgreen, Harvey  Search this

Littleton, Harvey K.  Search this

Schulman, Norman  Search this

Takaezu, Toshiko  Search this

Wittmann, Otto  Search this

Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa)  Search this

Glass Art Society  Search this

Habatat Galleries  Search this

Heller Gallery  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (U.S.)  Search this

Pismo Gallery  Search this

Toledo Art Museum  Search this

University of Toledo  Search this

University of Wisconsin--Madison  Search this

Vespermann Gallery  Search this

William H. Holston Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Tom McGlauchlin, 2006 October 13. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Color-field painting  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Jazz  Search this

Glass art  Search this

Theme:

Craft  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)13563

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)265441

AAA_collcode_mcglau06

Theme:

Craft

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_265441

Interviewee:

McGlauchlin, Tom, 1934-2011  Search this

Interviewer:

Byrd, Joan Falconer  Search this

Creator:

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Names:

Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa) -- Faculty  Search this

Glass Art Society  Search this

Habatat Galleries  Search this

Heller Gallery  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (U.S.)  Search this

Pismo Gallery  Search this

Toledo Art Museum  Search this

University of Toledo  Search this

University of Wisconsin--Madison -- Students  Search this

Vespermann Gallery  Search this

William H. Holston Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Bailey, Clayton, 1939-2020  Search this

Day, Russell  Search this

Dreisbach, Fritz  Search this

Labino, Dominick  Search this

Leafgreen, Harvey  Search this

Littleton, Harvey K.  Search this

Schulman, Norman, 1924-  Search this

Takaezu, Toshiko  Search this

Wittmann, Otto, 1911-2001  Search this

Extent:

39 Pages (Transcript)

2 Items (Sound recording: 2 sound files (1 hr., 58 min.), digital; wav)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2006 October 13

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Tom McGlauchlin conducted 2006 October 13, by Joan Falconer Byrd, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at the Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.

McGlauchlin speaks of his childhood in Wisconsin; receiving a B.S. and M.S. in Art from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; studying pottery with Harvey Littleton and Toshiko Takaezu; attending the first workshop for glassblowing at the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio in 1962; building his glass studio; teaching experiences at Cornell College; experiences as the Director of the Glass Program at the University of Toledo/Toledo Museum of Art; the rivalry between Harvey Littleton and Dominick Labino; his relationship with galleries throughout the years including Heller Gallery, Habatat Galleries, Holsten Galleries, Vespermann Gallery, Pismo Gallery, and others; his participation in Glass Art Society and National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts; his interest in textured surfaces; being influenced by Washington Color Field painters; the strong influence jazz has on his artwork; his involvement with the Art Tatum Jazz Heritage Festival in Toledo, Ohio; his plans to stop blowing glass in the near future; and his interest in working in pottery once again. McGlauchlin also recalls Clayton Bailey, Norm Schulman, Harvey Leafgreen, Otto Wittmann, Fritz Dreisbach, Russell Day, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Tom McGlauchlin (1934-2011) is an glass artist and potter from Toledo, Ohio. Joan Falconer Byrd (1939- ) is a ceramics professor from Cullowhee, North Carolina.

General:

Originally recorded on 2 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 58 min.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Occupation:

Glass artists -- Ohio  Search this

Topic:

Color-field painting  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Jazz  Search this

Glass art  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.mcglau06

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw99404f59e-e959-4644-bffe-2b078ae0bc72

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-mcglau06

Interviewee:

Dreisbach, Fritz, 1941-  Search this

Interviewer:

Frantz, Susanne  Search this

Subject:

Bailey, Clayton  Search this

Bernstein, William  Search this

Boysen, Bill  Search this

Brown, William J. (William Joseph)  Search this

Chihuly, Dale  Search this

Dailey, Dan  Search this

Eisch, Erwin  Search this

Giberson, Dudley  Search this

Halem, Henry  Search this

Labino, Dominick  Search this

Leafgreen, Harvey  Search this

Lipofsky, Marvin  Search this

Littleton, Harvey K.  Search this

McGlauchlin, Tom  Search this

Myers, Joel Philip  Search this

Noffke, Gary  Search this

Tamura, Ruth  Search this

Voulkos, Peter  Search this

Alfred University  Search this

Glass Art Society  Search this

Hiram College  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Penland School of Crafts  Search this

Pilchuck Glass Center (Stanwood, Wash.)  Search this

Toledo Museum of Art  Search this

University of Iowa  Search this

University of Wisconsin--Madison  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

Ohio -- Description and travel

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Fritz Dreisbach, 2004 April 21-22. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Decorative arts  Search this

Painting -- Study and teaching  Search this

Glass art  Search this

Theme:

Craft  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)11904

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)247287

AAA_collcode_dreisb04

Theme:

Craft

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_247287

Interviewee:

Dreisbach, Fritz  Search this

Interviewer:

Frantz, Susanne K.  Search this

Creator:

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Names:

Alfred University  Search this

Glass Art Society  Search this

Hiram College -- Students  Search this

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Penland School of Crafts -- Faculty  Search this

Pilchuck Glass Center (Stanwood, Wash.) -- Faculty  Search this

Toledo Museum of Art  Search this

University of Iowa -- Students  Search this

University of Wisconsin--Madison -- Students  Search this

Bailey, Clayton, 1939-2020  Search this

Bernstein, William, 1945-  Search this

Boysen, Bill  Search this

Brown, William J. (William Joseph), 1923-1992  Search this

Chihuly, Dale, 1941-  Search this

Dailey, Dan, 1947-  Search this

Eisch, Erwin, 1927-  Search this

Giberson, Dudley  Search this

Halem, Henry  Search this

Labino, Dominick  Search this

Leafgreen, Harvey  Search this

Lipofsky, Marvin, 1938-2016  Search this

Littleton, Harvey K.  Search this

McGlauchlin, Tom, 1934-2011  Search this

Myers, Joel Philip, 1934-  Search this

Noffke, Gary  Search this

Tamura, Ruth  Search this

Voulkos, Peter, 1924-2002  Search this

Extent:

121 Pages (Trancript)

21 Items (Sound recording: 21 sound files (8 hr., 41 min.), digital, wav)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

Ohio -- Description and Travel

Date:

2004 April 21-22

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Fritz Dreisbach conducted 2004 April 21-22, by Susanne Frantz, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, in Tucson, Arizona.

Dreisbach speaks of growing up in Ohio, in a family of educators and deciding at an early age to become a teacher; taking high school art; pursuing a BA in art and mathematics at Hiram College; getting his MAT and teaching high school math; attending the University of Iowa to study painting; the impact of taking a summer class in glassblowing; visiting Dominick Labino at his studio; researching colored glass and glass chemistry; becoming Harvey K. Littleton's teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; building a hot shop and teaching at the Toledo Museum of Art; teaching at Penland School of Crafts; creating the Glass Art Society with Mark Peiser after attending a NCECA conference; moving to Seattle to make glass colors for The Glass Eye; and working for Spectrum Glass Company. Dreisbach also speaks of the importance of community among glass artists; taking part in glass symposia in Frauenau, Germany; traveling around the country to teach workshops, known as his "Road Show"; making representational pop-style pieces as well as historical reference pieces; collaborating on a stained glass window with Gary Noffke; developing techniques for making goblets; working with Dante Marioni on a series of goblets; his commissioned pieces, including the Corning Pokal; engraving glass; his Mongo series; selling works through galleries; the influence of the Italian glass artists; teaching at Pilchuck Glass School; Dominick Labino's career and innovations in glass technology; being invited to give the Samuel R. Scholes lecture at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University; serving twice as Glass Art Society president; inaccuracies in the history of American studio glass; taking part in GAS conferences at Fenton Glass Factory; the importance of the rise of the university-trained glass artist in the 1960s; going to Pilchuck for the first time; meeting international glass artists; attending symposia at Novy Bor, Czech Republic; and his plans for the future. Dreisbach also recalls Tom McGlauchlin, Clayton Bailey, Erwin Eisch, Dale Chihuly, Bill Brown, Marvin Lipofsky, Joel Myers, Billy Bernstein, Dan Dailey, Dudley Giberson, Harvey Leafgreen, Bill Boysen, Henry Halem, Peter Voulkos, Ruth Tamura, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Fritz Dreisbach (1941- ) is a glass artist from Tucson, Arizona. Susanne Frantz is a writer and curator from Paradise Valley, Arizona.

General:

Originally recorded on 8 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 21 digital wav files. Duration is 8 hr., 41 min.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Occupation:

Glass artists -- Arizona -- Tucson  Search this

Glass artists -- Italy  Search this

Topic:

Decorative arts  Search this

Painting -- Study and teaching  Search this

Glass art  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.dreisb04

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f3b3b115-08fd-40c6-b8a5-8042b0c53c44

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-dreisb04

Photographer:

Florian, Robert C.  Search this

Subject:

Carlson, Nils  Search this

Leafgreen, Harvey  Search this

Littleton, Harvey K.  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Date:

1964

Citation:

Robert C. Florian. Harvey Littleton lampworking with Nils Carlson and Harvey Leafgreen watching., 1964. Harvey K. Littleton papers, 1946-1975. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Glass art  Search this

Glass blowing and working  Search this

Glassmakers  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)14109

See more items in:

Harvey K. Littleton papers, 1946-1975

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_14109

Photographer:

Florian, Robert C.  Search this

Subject:

Bailey, Clayton  Search this

Erikson, Erik  Search this

Florian, Robert C.  Search this

Karrasch, John  Search this

Leafgreen, Harvey  Search this

Littleton, Harvey K.  Search this

Medellin, Octavio  Search this

Schulman, Norman  Search this

Wilson, June  Search this

Zielinski, Stanley  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Date:

1962 June

Citation:

Robert C. Florian. Harvey Littleton, Clayton Bailey, and Robert Florian among others at a Toledo Museum of Art workshop, 1962 June. Harvey K. Littleton papers, 1946-1975. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Artists in groups  Search this

Glass artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)218

See more items in:

Harvey K. Littleton papers, 1946-1975

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_218