Robert Willson : image-maker /
Kangas, Matthew
Robert Willson : image-maker / Matthew Kangas - San Antonio : Seattle, Wash. : Pace-Willson Foundation ; University of Washington Press, c2001 - 171 p. : illus. ; 31 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-169).
Robert Willson was one of the most complex and contradictory American artists of the past century. Among the first American sculptors to use solid glass in a small factory setting, he was at once regional and international, steeped in pre-Columbian art as well as Texas folklore. Educated in the Southwest and Mexico, he discovered the glass studios of Murano, Italy, at the age of forty-four and never looked back. In Robert Image-Maker, author Matthew Kangas fills in a gaping niche in American art history, the tale of the gangly fellow who sounded like actor James Stweart, fell in love with Venice, and spent the next thirty-seven summers there making solid glass sculptures.
English
9780295982182
Willson, Robert, 1912- 2000 --Catalogs.
Glass art--United States
748.092 WIL
Robert Willson : image-maker / Matthew Kangas - San Antonio : Seattle, Wash. : Pace-Willson Foundation ; University of Washington Press, c2001 - 171 p. : illus. ; 31 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-169).
Robert Willson was one of the most complex and contradictory American artists of the past century. Among the first American sculptors to use solid glass in a small factory setting, he was at once regional and international, steeped in pre-Columbian art as well as Texas folklore. Educated in the Southwest and Mexico, he discovered the glass studios of Murano, Italy, at the age of forty-four and never looked back. In Robert Image-Maker, author Matthew Kangas fills in a gaping niche in American art history, the tale of the gangly fellow who sounded like actor James Stweart, fell in love with Venice, and spent the next thirty-seven summers there making solid glass sculptures.
English
9780295982182
Willson, Robert, 1912- 2000 --Catalogs.
Glass art--United States
748.092 WIL
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