Maurice Heaton | |
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| Born | 1900 Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
| Died | April 6, 1990 (aged 89–90)[1] Valley Cottage, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Years active | 1923–1990 |
| Known for | Glass artist |
| Movement | Studio glass movement,Art Deco |
Maurice Heaton (1900–1990) was a Swiss-born Americanglass artist, of English ancestry.[2] His glass work ranged in subject, and included work in window hangings, murals, lighting fixtures, and tableware.[2] For most of his life he lived in thehamlet ofValley Cottage in Rockland County, New York, U.S..[3][4]
In 1985, Heaton was elected as a fellow of theAmerican Craft Council (ACC).[5]
Maurice Heaton was born in 1900 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, to English parents.[2] His father and grandfather were glass artists.[4] In 1914 duringWorld War I, his family moved to New York state, and by 1919 the family settled in Valley Cottage, New York which was a rural area at the time.[3][6]
Heaton attended theStevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he studied engineering.[6] After leaving college he worked under his father Clement Heaton, as astained-glass artist assistant.[4][6]
He had invented a process in 1947 for creatingglassware in the studio furnace, and was later part of the 1960sstudio glass movement.[7] His glass studio was in Valley Cottage, New York; it experienced three major fires in 1974, in 1981, and the last fire being in 1988.[4] It took him a year and a half to rebuild his glass studio after the 1988 fire,[8] shortly before his death in April 6, 1990.[1]
Heaton's artwork can be found in museum collections, including at theBrooklyn Museum,[9] theMetropolitan Museum of Art,[10]Museum of Arts and Design,[11] theCorning Museum of Glass, theArt Institute of Chicago,[12] and theSmithsonian American Art Museum.[7]
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