Author Description

His signature works in glass engage tens of thousands worldwide, and this landmark comprehensive book beautifully reveals Simpson's boundary-stretching innovations in how glass is used. Chapters organized by his best-known works allow collectors, the public, experts, and students to marvel at how and why his best-known works are famous: Goblets, Planets, Vessels, Sculpture, Stellar Disks. Also included are details on his less known and experimental works, including New Mexico Glass, Tektites, and other convention-breaking contributions to glass art. Especially timely since it's the 50th-anniversary year of Simpson's work. Insights by experts in the glass world, including William Warmus, Tina Oldknow, Nezka Pfeifer, and others, supply additional views. Simpson Art is in these public collections: American Craft Museum, New York, New York Bergstrom-Mahler Museum; Neenah, Wisconsin Brunnier Museum; Ames, Iowa Chrysler Museum; Norfolk, Virginia Corning Museum of Glass; Corning, New York Dartmouth College Hood Museum; Hanover, New Hampshire Fuller Art Museum; Brockton, Massachusetts George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum; Springfield, Massachusetts Hamilton College Emerson Gallery; Clinton, New York Mint Museum; Charlotte, North Carolina Museum für Gestaltung; Zurich, Switzerland Museum of Decorative Arts; Prague, Czech Republic Museum of Fine Arts; Boston, Massachusetts Nelson Museum of Art; Tempe, Arizona Newark Museum of Art Peabody Essex Museum; Salem, Massachusetts Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Washington, DC Royal Ontario Museum; Toronto, Canada The Alcorcón City Museum of Glass Art; Spain The Museum of Arts and Sciences; Macon, Georgia U.S. State Department Yale University Art Gallery; New Haven, Connecticut