  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.”
  
  
  Title
  Vase
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1932
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  Walter Dorwin Teague  (Designer)
  American, 1883-1960
  (Manufacturer)
  Steuben Division, Corning Glass
  
  
  
  Medium
  Glass
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 12 inches (30.5 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Glass
  
  
  Department
  American Art before 1950
  
  
  Credit
  Museum Purchase, Associates of the American Wing Special Projects Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  2018.45
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
