Misplaced Pages

Maurice Heaton (1900–1990) was a Swiss-born American glass artist, of English ancestry. His glass work ranged in subject, and included work in window hangings, murals, lighting fixtures, and tableware. For most of his life he lived in the hamlet of Valley Cottage in Rockland County, New York, U.S..

In 1985, Heaton was elected as a fellow of the American Craft Council (ACC).

Biography

Maurice Heaton was born in 1900 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, to English parents. His father and grandfather were glass artists. In 1914 during World War I, his family moved to New York state, and by 1919 the family settled in Valley Cottage, New York which was a rural area at the time.

Heaton attended the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he studied engineering. After leaving college he worked under his father Clement Heaton, as a stained-glass artist assistant.

He had invented a process in 1947 for creating glassware in the studio furnace, and was later part of the 1960s studio glass movement. His glass studio was in Valley Cottage, New York; it experienced three major fires in 1974, in 1981, and the last fire being in 1988. It took him a year and a half to rebuild his glass studio after the 1988 fire, shortly before his death in April 6, 1990.

Heaton's artwork can be found in museum collections, including at the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Arts and Design, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

References

1. ^ Gutwillig, Richard (April 9, 1990). "Rockland loses a craftsman, and much more". The Journal News. pp. B1, B2 – via Newspapers.com.
2. ^ "USA Studio Glass vor 1962 / before 1962: Maurice Heaton, Frances and Michael Higgins, Edris Eckhardt, Vier Pioniere und Wegbereiter / Four Pioneers and True Originals" (PDF). Neues Glas. 4. Düsseldorf: Verlagsanstalt Handwerk: 232–240. October 1985. ISSN 0723-2454. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-11-15.
3. ^ "Maurice Heaton exhibits in Tenafly, NJ". The Journal News. October 14, 1983. p. 49 – via Newspapers.com.
4. ^ "Despite fire, his dreams, artwork alive". The Journal News. May 5, 1988 – via Newspapers.com. pp. 1, 14
5. "College of Fellows". American Craft Council. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
6. ^ "Maurice Heaton". Voices in Studio Glass History. Bard College. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
7. ^ "Maurice Heaton". Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). Retrieved 2023-11-15.
8. Gutwillig, Richard (November 7, 1989). "Despite adversity, artist rebuilds hopes, dreams". The Journal News. pp. 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Maurice Heaton". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
10. "Maurice Heaton "Africa" Bowl". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
11. "Propeller Dish". Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). Retrieved 2023-11-15.
12. "Maurice Heaton". The Art Institute of Chicago. 1900. Retrieved 2023-11-15.

• 1900 births
• 1990 deaths
• 20th-century American male artists
• American glass artists
• British glass artists
• People from Valley Cottage, New York
• Stevens Institute of Technology alumni
• Swiss emigrants to the United States