IN 1992, George F. Russell Jr., the chairman of an international investment services company, met with civic and business leaders in Tacoma to discuss building a museum devoted to works of glass.
The immediacy of the works of glass give an illusion of fluid free form and feel like something frozen in time.
The first version, a revolutionary work made of glass, was rejected and he finally produced, in 1957, a bronze showing a mother with a drowned child on her arm.
In 1932 W.H. Zachariasen published The Atomic Arrangement in Glass, a classic paper that had perhaps the most influence of any published work on glass science.
"Einstein on the Beach" represents the apex of the early work of Mr. Glass and Mr. Wilson, and it played a crucial role in their careers.
("The colors!") Earlier, the reader learned, she ventured out to Sun Valley, where she was introduced to the work of a glass blower named William Morris.
The work of Germanic glass painters provides outstanding examples, particularly the window (after 1424) from St. Lambrecht, now in the museum at Graz, Austria, and the charming Alsatian window of St. Katherine (c. 1425 50) at Sélestat, France.
one created a work of stained glass in a chain link fence.
The work of stained-glass restoration itself, subcontracted to Femenella & Associates of Annandale, is divided among studios in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York.
In the $20 million Chihuly Garden and Glass, to open May 21, the phantasmagoric, vibrantly colored works of the glass artist Dale Chihuly and his studio flow through almost 17,000 square feet of galleries and spill into an adjoining garden.
