Glidden Pottery · 2019. 10. 27. · Mid-Century High Style Stoneware • Glidden Parker began...
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Glidden Pottery Produced in Alfred New York Thursday, February 27, 2014
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Glidden Pottery Produced in Alfred New York
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Mid-Century High Style Stoneware
• Glidden Parker began working on his first designs for Glidden Pottery in 1939, while teaching at Alfred University.
• He creates molds for the pottery that would continue to be handmade, despite being mass produced.
• Slip molds are plaster molds of the object, with an opening thatslip, or watered down clay, can be poured into to create multiplesof work that is identical.
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Production• Glidden Pottery was offically formed in 1940
• Alfred Grad Jane Walkley was put in charge of production, and created 200-300 pieces a week using the molds Glidden Parker had created.
• At this time all the pottery was signed by Glidden ParkerHimself.
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Glidden was fond of creating Ferris Wheels
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Collaborations with Fong Chow
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