Kangas, Matthew <br/><br/>
Robert Willson :  image-maker / 
Matthew Kangas 
 - San Antonio :  Seattle, Wash. :  Pace-Willson Foundation ;  University of Washington Press,  c2001 
 - 171 p. :  illus. ;  31 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-169). 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780295982182 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Willson, Robert, 1912- 2000 --Catalogs.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Glass art--United States
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>748.092 WIL