Mary Gregory (1856-1908) is an American artist famous for decorating her glassware products at Boston and Sandwich Glass Company in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Gregory worked for Boston and Sandwich from 1880 to 1884. Gregory painted landscape lights and plaques during his years at B & SGC.
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Early life and work
Gregory was born in Providence, Rhode Island to John Gregory and Hannah A. Gregory. His mother was a school teacher in Sandwich, Massachusetts and Mary worked as a teacher from 1876 to 1879, but soon left teaching to work for the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company as an ornamental glass, starting in January 1880.
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Victorian children
He is well known for his painting of Victorian children, and the work has been called Mary Gregory since the 1920s. The glass is most likely from Bohemia, England, or Italy. Nonetheless, many glass art enthusiasts continue to refer to pieces like Mary Gregory.
Style "Mary Gregory"
The glass in Mary Gregory's style continued after his tenure at the Boston and Sandwich glass factory from 1880 to 1884.
Angela M. Bowey in The Glass Encyclopedia describes the different features of Mary Gregory's glass as a "stylized white enamel painting that a child usually has outdoors, playing with things like butterfly nets, bubbles, fishing poles , or circles.The trees and foliage often have a distinctive "hairy" style, the figure is strangely ancient in proportion, and enamel is fired into the glass. "
The Westmoreland Glass Company of Grapeville, Pennsylvania, began marketing their work as Mary Gregory in the 1920s. They will make a Victorian child's Era of glass in the profile, and say it's done in Mary Gregory's style. The Westmoreland artist portrays a white cherry silhouette on black glass plates, vases, glass boxes, heart-shaped plates, and more. In the 1970s, they also painted these scenes on the blank that they call Blue Mist - a semi-blur in light blue. Many pieces of Mary Gregory also appeared as a Cranberry plate, tumbler glasses, glasses, glasses, and so on.
Techniques
Gregory, his sister, and perhaps others he had trained, used white enamel paint with earth glass as a mixture of paint. To tie the paint to the glass, they shoot it after the application. It blends in pieces in this way so that the painting becomes part of the glass. Similar artwork is made by dozens of greenhouses, and several others, such as Fenton, continue to this day.
See also
- Cranberry Glass
References
External links
- The History of Mary Gregory - Andrew Lineham
- HGTV Mary Gregory Glass
- Mary Gregory Primer in the Wayback Machine (archived December 19, 2007)
- Westmoreland National Collecting Club
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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