Richard
JolleyQuick find: prints by Harvey Littleton, Dale Chihuly, Erwin Eisch
Featured artist for January 2010
Richard
Jolley
Reflections on Classicism
2003 vitreograph
Edition of 30
image size: 30" x 22 ½"
$800
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Overlooking the Indian River in St. Lucie County Florida, The Littleton Collection is perched on a sand ridge on the east side of U.S. 1 nine miles south of Vero Beach and three miles north of Fort Pierce. The Littleton Collection is literally and figuratively a high spot in south central Florida. Its view of the Indian River lagoon and the barrier island beyond is as spectacular as the contemporary artworks the gallery offers.
The gallery is the creation of Harvey K. Littleton, the renowned glass artist who has been called the father of the American studio glass movement. The Littleton Collection specializes in fine prints produced with a printmaking technique pioneered by Harvey Littleton: vitreography.
Simply put, a vitreograph is a print that has been pulled (printed) from a glass matrix onto paper. Unlike a monotype, in which an image is painted onto a piece of glass and then transferred under pressure to a piece of paper, the image on a vitreograph plate is fixed and can be inked and re-inked to produce an edition of multiples. To date, 110 artists have collaborated with Littleton Studios to produce more than 725 print editions using the vitreographic process.
The Littleton Collection features studio glass, too
The Littleton Collection gallery sells studio glass as well as vitreograph
prints. Currently featured are studio glass objects from the private collection
of Harvey K. Littleton. Artists whose work is
available for purchase include Rick Beck, Ken Carder, Dale Chihuly, Kyohei
Fujita, Pavel Hlava, Robert Levin, Joel Philip Myers, Stephen Powell, Mary
Shaffer, Therman Statom and Yan Zoritchak. Works by Harvey Littleton and by the
artistic team of John Littleton and Kate Vogel are also available.
Click on the detail of Rob Levin's "Banana Car" at left for more images.
Visit or write to The Littleton Collection at 3690 North US Highway 1, Fort Pierce Florida 34946. Telephone us at 772/595-9845. Gallery hours are 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday
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The director of the gallery is Ellen E. Fischer.
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