Harvey K. Littleton (WI/NC, 1922-2013), Origami Suite (Complete Series of Four Works)

Lot Details & Additional Photographs

Color vitreographs (intaglio prints from glass plates), 1983, pencil signed, titled, and marked as an edition of 50 to lower margin, printed at Littleton Studios, Spruce Pine, North Carolina, presented in uniform framing.

Sight size 20 x 17 in. (varies slightly); Frame dimensions 30 1/2 x 24 1/4 in.

Morehead Galleries, Greensboro, North Carolina

Primarily known as one of the founders of the modern art glass movement, Harvey Littleton's vitreographs on paper show a different side of the artist, and a medium he developed on his own. Littleton's work was among the first examples of modern glass acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. After a long tenure teaching at the University of Wisconsin, where he influenced artists such as Dale Chihuly, Littleton later settled in Spruce Pine, North Carolina.

In the early 1980s, Littleton developed the vitreograph process, using glass plates to create prints with depth and luminosity. Some of these ideas are explored in the Origami Suite, which was inspired by light dispersed through a prism. At his Littleton Studios in Spruce Pine, he invited artists including Dale Chihuly, Herb Jackson, Richard Jolley and others to experiment with the medium, extending his collaborative and innovative approach beyond glass into printmaking.

Overall very good condition with bright, clean sheets; some possible slight fading (though coloring may be intentional); few with minor, faint scattered foxing marks; not examined out of frames.