Oral history interview with Tom McGlauchlin
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 58 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: McGlauchlin, Tom, 1934-2011
label: Interviewer
content: Byrd, Joan Falconer
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa) -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Glass Art Society
label: Names
content: Habatat Galleries
label: Names
content: Heller Gallery
label: Names
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
label: Names
content: National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (U.S.)
label: Names
content: Pismo Gallery
label: Names
content: Toledo Art Museum
label: Names
content: University of Toledo
label: Names
content: University of Wisconsin--Madison -- Students
label: Names
content: Vespermann Gallery
label: Names
content: William H. Holston Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Bailey, Clayton, 1939-2020
label: Names
content: Day, Russell
label: Names
content: Dreisbach, Fritz
label: Names
content: Labino, Dominick
label: Names
content: Leafgreen, Harvey
label: Names
content: Littleton, Harvey K.
label: Names
content: Schulman, Norman, 1924-
label: Names
content: Takaezu, Toshiko
label: Names
content: Wittmann, Otto, 1911-2001
topic: label: Occupation
content: Glass artists -- Ohio
label: Topic
content: Color-field painting
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Jazz
label: Topic
content: Glass art
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: McGlauchlin, Tom, 1934-2011
label: Interviewer
content: Byrd, Joan Falconer
label: Creator
content: Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Tom McGlauchlin (1934-2011) is an glass artist and potter from Toledo, Ohio. Joan Falconer Byrd (1939- ) is a ceramics professor from Cullowhee, North Carolina.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 39 Pages (Transcript)
label: Extent
content: 2 Items (Sound recording: 2 sound files (1 hr., 58 min.), digital; wav)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2006 October 13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mcglau06
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Tom McGlauchlin conducted 2006 October 13, by Joan Falconer Byrd, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at the Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.
label: Scope and Contents
content: McGlauchlin speaks of his childhood in Wisconsin; receiving a B.S. and M.S. in Art from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; studying pottery with Harvey Littleton and Toshiko Takaezu; attending the first workshop for glassblowing at the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio in 1962; building his glass studio; teaching experiences at Cornell College; experiences as the Director of the Glass Program at the University of Toledo/Toledo Museum of Art; the rivalry between Harvey Littleton and Dominick Labino; his relationship with galleries throughout the years including Heller Gallery, Habatat Galleries, Holsten Galleries, Vespermann Gallery, Pismo Gallery, and others; his participation in Glass Art Society and National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts; his interest in textured surfaces; being influenced by Washington Color Field painters; the strong influence jazz has on his artwork; his involvement with the Art Tatum Jazz Heritage Festival in Toledo, Ohio; his plans to stop blowing glass in the near future; and his interest in working in pottery once again. McGlauchlin also recalls Clayton Bailey, Norm Schulman, Harvey Leafgreen, Otto Wittmann, Fritz Dreisbach, Russell Day, and others.