Robert Willson
Subtitle: Image Maker
Publisher: Pace-Willson Foundation
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780295982182
Subjects: Ceramic arts, pottery, glass; Individual artists; Biography & Autobiography; Art & Art Instruction; Biography/Autobiography; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; Individual Artist; Sculpture; Willson, Robert; Artists, Architects, Photographers; 1912-; Catalogs; Glass art; United States; Willson, Robert,
Description: "Robert Willson (1912-2000) 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 Willson: 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."--BOOK JACKET.