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Collection Vase

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Walter Dorwin Teague, Designer Steuben Division, Corning Glass, Manufacturer
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About the Artwork

With a smooth cylindrical shape and geometric pattern engraved on its surface, this 1932 vase appealed to the American embrace of modern style during the Great Depression. Industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague conceived this form during his brief tenure with the Steuben Division of Corning Glass Works. Steuben had built its reputation through elaborate and artfully crafted glass objects in a rainbow of vibrant colors created under its founder Frederick Carder (1863 – 1963). Teague’s simplified forms in colorless glass were a radical departure in style.

Teague’s objects were marketed as luxury goods, unlike the inexpensive mass-produced wares Corning sold under the Pyrex brand during the same period. The designer quipped that possessing a piece of modern Steuben glass should be “one of those evidences of solvency, like the ownership of a Cadillac.”

Vase

1932

Walter Dorwin Teague (Designer) American, 1883-1960 Steuben Division, Corning Glass (Manufacturer)

Glass

Overall: 12 inches (30.5 cm)

Glass

American Art before 1950

Museum Purchase, Associates of the American Wing Special Projects Fund

2018.45

Public Domain

Markings

Engraved, on underside of base: Steuben

Provenance

(KPM Art and Antiques);
2018-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Walter Dorwin Teague; Steuben Division, Corning Glass, Vase, 1932, glass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Associates of the American Wing Special Projects Fund, 2018.45.

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