The Art of the Paperweight - Challenging Tradition
with guest curator Lawrence Selman

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The Art of the Paperweight - Challenging Tradition
with guest curator Lawrence H. Selman

This is the catalog of the first ever traveling paperweight exhibition.  Curated by Larry Selman, the exhibit included 108 outstanding antique and modern paperweights and traveled to four American museums.  The catalog includes color illustrations and descriptive text for all 108 paperweights, plus two informative essays and brief biographical entries for the paperweight makers and factories.  A price guide is included.

84 pages with 108 color photographs. 
Soft bound.  8 1/2" by 11".  1993.

Sections are:

  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • The Tradition (essay)
  • Antique Paperweights
  • A New Era (essay)
  • Modern Paperweights
  • Artist Biographies
  • Bibliography
Click on the picture to see a color page from the book.

 

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