The American brilliant cut glass tradition is perhaps nowhere
better showcased than in the intricate art of Charles Guernsey
Tuthill. Born in 1871 in Corning, New York, Tuthill entered the
glass trade as a young apprentice, launching a career that would
not only produce some of the finest cut glass in America but also
innovate that art form in ways that adapted to the changing life of
the new century.
In this detailed narrative of the business Tuthill founded, the
patterns he created, the techniques he used, and the other artisans
and consumers he knew, Maurice Crofford has written the story of an
earlier, more elegant and leisurely era. For those knowledgeable
about cut glass, the development of the forms will be instructive;
for others, who simply appreciate the beauty of the glass, the
numerous black and white photographs will appeal. Beyond both of
those dimensions, however, Crofford provides insight into how
industrialization and mass production and, more especially, the
automobile, changed forever the ways upper-class Americans lived,
entertained, and displayed their good fortune. In Tuthill's career,
moreover, Crofford finds an example of American ingenuity and
creative genius that responded to changing times.
The glass itself is of extraordinary beauty, and the
descriptions here include the patterns, effects sought, and methods
of hand production. Crofford details not only those patterns best
known to aficionados of American cut glass of the Brilliant Period
but also other patterns retrieved through exhaustive dogging of
Tuthill's trail.
Through the written records of Tuthill's succession of
businesses and through interviews with surviving members of the
Tuthill family,Crofford has reconstructed a remarkably detailed
catalog of this master craftsman's work as well as an engaging
story of his life and career.
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