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Women in Glass: Designing and Decorating Glass

Introduction to library resources on women in glass. More information is available through the library catalog or by using the Rakow's Ask a Librarian service.

Designing

A Woman's Touch by Isabelle Anscombe
ISBN: 0670778257

Publication Date: 1984-10-25
Women Artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, 1870-1914 by Anthea Callen
ISBN: 0394737806

Publication Date: 1979-06-01
Women designing : redefining design in Britain between the wars by Seddon, Jill
Publication Date: 1994

Freda Diamond

Communism in a Juice Glass
Part of the Women in Glasshouses blog series exploring the work of Freda Diamond, mid-century designer.

The story of glass by Freda Diamond
Publication Date: 1953
200 Years of Glass by Robert Zollweg; Yarko Kuk (Editor)
ISBN: 1733266402

Publication Date: 2019-12-01
The Alliance of Art and Industry by Davira S. Taragin; John Heskett
ISBN: 1555952186

Publication Date: 2002-02-08
Bringing Modernism Home by Carol Boram-Hays
ISBN: 0821416006

Publication Date: 2005-02-25
Designer for Everybody. by Henry Luce
Publication Date: Life Magazine. April 5, 1954: 69-70
Women Designers in the U. S. A., 1900-2000 by Pat Kirkham (Editor)
ISBN: 0300093314

Publication Date: 2002-01-11

Chapter: In a Man’s World: Women Industrial Designers.

American Aspects of Assassination of Leon Trotsky: Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities House of Representatives Eighty-First Congress Second Session: July 26, August 30, October 18 and 19, and December 4, 1950
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1951
First Showing of Good Design Exhibition in New York
Museum of Modern Art exhibition, 1950

Staining

A few individual glass painters:

Mary Beilby (1749–1797), a glass painter, was among the first women who were employed as artisans in glass workshops https://blog.cmog.org/2015/02/12/notable-acquisitions-beilby-watercolors/
Harriet Hyams
Margaret and Frances McDonald (Glasgow Arts Movement)

American women stained glass artists : 1870s to 1930s, their world and their windows by MacDowell, Betty
Publication Date: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University, 1986.
The Glasgow Girls : women in art & design, 1880-1920 by Burkhauser, Jude
Publication Date: 1990

Tiffany Designers

Tiffany's Glass Mosaics by Kelly A. Conway (Editor); Lindsy R. Parrott (Editor)
ISBN: 0872902102

Publication Date: 2017-01-01
A New Light on Tiffany by New York Historical Society Staff
Call Number: Stacks: NK5198.T5 .E34

ISBN: 1904832350

Publication Date: 2007
The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen; Martin Eidelberg
ISBN: 0865651639

Publication Date: 2005-10-19

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Subjects: Artists Who Work with Glass, History of Glass, Science and Technology of Glass