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Glen William Lukens

Glen William Lukens (1887 - 1967) was active/lived in California, Missouri.  Glen Lukens is known for Ceramics-pottery, bowls, glassware.

A Missouri-born ceramist, jewelry designer, and glassmaker, Glen Lukens "helped change the way we see and interpret ceramics today" (Thompson).  He is also known for "his landmark innovations in glazes"(Greenbaum) and for his contributions to modernist jewelry.

Glen Lukens moved to California in 1925 and settled in Los Angeles.   At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in the 1930s, he was a teacher of ceramics, metalwork and jewelry making, and his course "Jewelry Design and Making" had a lasting impact on the modernist jewelry first produced in Los Angeles and then elsewhere including through Sam Kramer, who became a famous innovative New York jeweler. 

Lukens also spent fifteen years as a writer and illustrator for the magazine Popular Ceramics.  He was a member of the Art Teachers Association of Southern California.

Lukens was active at a time period in America when ceramics served almost excl   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3033 characters.]  Artist bio

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6 Book References for Glen William Lukens
Year Author Title Pages Color
2006 Moneta, Howard (editor) Davenport's Art Reference & Price Guide 2006/2007 Edition 0 No
2006 Thompson, Greig (Editor) Feeling, Thought and Spirit: The Ceramic Works of Glen Lukens
(Exhibition catalog)
40 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1984 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall Southern California Art Publication 3, Dictionary 291 No
1938 Editors Who's Who in American Art, 1938-1939 0 No
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