The Chrysler Museum of Art possesses one of the great glass collections in America. This is largely due to the efforts of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., who identified glass as an important area for the museum that he established in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Mr. Chrysler had a particular passion for the glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany and was well positioned to become a pioneer collector in that area, having met Tiffany in 1931. 

The Chrysler’s greatest strength is in glass made during the second quarter of the 19th-century through the 20th-century, yet it contains many significant objects from earlier eras. The Tiffany collection is world famous and nearly comprehensive in the area of blown glass, and also contains splendid windows and lamps.

French glass is another major area of strength with magnificent glasses made by nearly all major makers including Baccarat, Gallé, Daum, Walter, Marinot, Argy-Rousseau, and Burgun, Schverer, & Cie.  The English cameo glass collection, while small, is stellar, containing John Northwood’s Milton Vase—arguably the first great original masterpiece in the English revival of this ancient Roman glass-carving technique.

Virtually all of the Chrysler’s collection of major studio and contemporary glass has been acquired since 1990. The range of artists and techniques represents the very best in contemporary glass and includes such artists as Howard Ben Tré, Harvey K. Littleton, William Morris, Lino Tagliapietra, and Libenský and Brychtová.

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