Harvey Littleton

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From the archives of Askart.com: Born in Corning, New York, Harvey Littleton has had a long career as an educator and glass blower and has served on the Board of Trustees of the Pilchuck School in Washington. In 2004, he was living in Spruce Pine, North Carolina.

From 1949 to 1951, he was instructor of ceramic art in Ohio at the Toledo Museum Art School of Design, and from 1951-1977, he was professor of art in Madison at the University of Wisconsin, serving as Chair of the Department from 1964 to 1967 and 1969 to 1971.

He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Design from the University of Michigan; studied in England at the Brighton School of Design, and then earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Exhibition venues include the Johnson Wax Collection, 1969-1972; Corning Museum of Glass 1979-1981; and retrospectives at the Mint Museum in 1979 and 1999-2001, and the Smithsonian in 1984.

(Credit: "Who's Who in American Art, 2003-2004")