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Harvey Littleton is considered one of the
pioneers of the Modern Art Glass movement, being there at the
beginning in the early 60's and training many of the people who
drove the early years of activity.
The primary purpose of this page is to offer
copyright credit for a few images used elsewhere on my site which
were taken from his book Glass Blowing, A Search for Form. 1971 (paperback
Van Nostrand 1980 ISBN 0-442-24341-3) The images shown on this
page are copyright Littleton Education Publishing and are used
under fair
use copyright law link The book is available in some
public libraries and may be considered a basic reference for the
movement.
 This piece is almost a signature
piece for Littleton, although he did a lot of other, different
stuff, shown in the book. The long clear glass shapes with
colored cores, thick at each end were made in pieces like this
and also draped across steel forms.
 For people who have explored the
beginnings of the studio glass movement the annealler control
shown at the right and on the right in the picture below is
almost like being shown a photo of the atomic bomb, Big Boy. The
round black dial on the upper left is a Variac variable
transformer, which mechanically changes the voltage supplied by
making a sliding connection to the secondary coils of a
transformer. Below it is an industrial timer as might be used on
outdoor lighting or a water heater. A cam shape has been fastened
to the timer and a disk to the Variac knob with a string to
connect the two. As the timer turns, it pulls the Variac around
lowering the voltage gradually and thus lowering the temperature
in the annealler. Because of the cams shape, the rate of lowering
speeds up as time passes.
Hot
wall with annealler at right. These are small tank furnaces.
 Blocks
 Diamond
Shears
 Wooden paddles, well used
Jacks of different sizes
Jacks with wood tips
 Tweezers
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