1986

Implied Movements

American, 1922 - 2013

Based on the vocabulary of geometric forms, Implied Movements consists of five attenuated tubes with color cased in optical glass. Imbued with energy, each lissome form appears “as though [it] were still moving,” states Harvey Littleton, a pioneering member of the American Studio Glass Movement. Created at the apex of the artist’s career, the rhythmic organic forms of Implied Movements are a distillation of “emotions into a form. A man cannot educe forms from hot glass by conceiving it as a cold, finished material. He must immerse himself in immediate experimentation and study, for the glass will not wait.”