Paperweights from the Henry Melville Fuller Collection
by: Paul Hollister
1993, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
96 pages, $40. large format, soft cover edition of 1500 copies.
Preface: “Glass paperweights have fascinated their owners for almost 150 years and these precious works of art continue to be produced at a high level of excellence today. Anyone examining a fine glass paperweight experiences a certain awe at how such delicate form could be captured under crystal so clear. It is with great pleasure then, that the Currier Gallery of Art presents this exhibition of superb antique and modern paperweights from the collection of Henry Melville Fuller.
The Currier is fortunate to have one of America’s most distinguished paperweight collectors as a trustee and long-time valued friend. Although Henry Melville Fuller’s fine collection of nineteenth-century American landscape painting is well known to our museum patrons as well as to scholars of American art, few know that Mr. Fuller has successfully assembled a fascinating collection of antique and modern paperweights. With this exhibition the public will have its first opportunity to view the collection in its entirety and understand the strong aesthetic appeal of both antique and modern weights.
This exhibition complements the Currier Gallery’s own outstanding collection of nineteenth-century glass and decorative arts and its few, but excellent, pieces of contemporary glass. The show also salutes “1993: the Year of Craft in America,” a national celebration of the country’s craft tradition.
We are grateful for the contributions of ....”
Marilyn Friedman Hoffman, Director
This is a beautiful large format catalogue of one of the world’s premier collections of fine paperweights, which now is housed permanently at the Currier Museum of Art. The complete collection is catalogued and illustrated in this volume.
