Maurice Heaton
{{Short description|Swiss-born American glass artist (1900–1990)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Maurice Heaton
| birth_date = 1900
| birth_place = Neuchâtel, Switzerland
| death_date = April 6, {{death year and age|1990|1900}}
| death_place = 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 American glass artist, of English ancestry.{{Cite journal |date=October 1985 |title=USA Studio Glass vor 1962 / before 1962: Maurice Heaton, Frances and Michael Higgins, Edris Eckhardt, Vier Pioniere und Wegbereiter / Four Pioneers and True Originals. |url=https://exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu/studioglasshistory/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/60-1985-PH-Neues-Glas-no-4-USA-Studio-Glass-Before-1962-Heaton-Higgenses-Eckhardt.pdf |journal=Neues Glas |publisher=Verlagsanstalt Handwerk |publication-place=Düsseldorf |volume=4 |pages=232–240 |issn=0723-2454 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231115062532/https://exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu/studioglasshistory/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/60-1985-PH-Neues-Glas-no-4-USA-Studio-Glass-Before-1962-Heaton-Higgenses-Eckhardt.pdf |archive-date=2023-11-15}} His glass work ranged in subject, and included work in window hangings, murals, lighting fixtures, and tableware. For most of his life he lived in the hamlet of Valley Cottage in Rockland County, New York, U.S..{{Cite news |date=October 14, 1983 |title=Maurice Heaton exhibits in Tenafly, NJ |pages=49 |work=The Journal News |url=https://www.newspapers.com./image/163341592/ |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=May 5, 1988 |title=Despite fire, his dreams, artwork alive |pages= |work=The Journal News |via=Newspapers.com}} pp. [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-news-despite-fire-his-dream/5814013/ 1], [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-news-fire-dreams-artwork-2/5814034/ 14]
In 1985, Heaton was elected as a fellow of the American Craft Council (ACC).{{Cite web |title=College of Fellows |url=https://www.craftcouncil.org/programs/acc-awards/college-fellows |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=American Craft Council |language=en}}
Biography
Maurice Heaton was born in 1900 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, to English parents. His father and grandfather were glass artists. In 1914 during World 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.{{Cite web |title=Maurice Heaton |url=https://exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu/studioglasshistory/artists/maurice-heaton/ |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=Voices in Studio Glass History |publisher=Bard College |language=en}}
Heaton attended the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he studied engineering. After leaving college he worked under his father Clement Heaton, as a stained-glass artist assistant.
He had invented a process in 1947 for creating glassware in the studio furnace, and was later part of the 1960s studio glass movement.{{Cite web |title=Maurice Heaton |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/maurice-heaton-5894 |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) |language=en}} 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. It took him a year and a half to rebuild his glass studio after the 1988 fire,{{Cite news |last=Gutwillig |first=Richard |date=November 7, 1989 |title=Despite adversity, artist rebuilds hopes, dreams |pages=1, 10 |work=The Journal News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-news-despite-adversity-arti/135230849/ |via=Newspapers.com}} shortly before his death in April 6, 1990.{{Cite news |last=Gutwillig |first=Richard |date=April 9, 1990 |title=Rockland loses a craftsman, and much more |pages=B1, B2 |work=The Journal News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-news-rockland-loses-a-crafts/5888564/ |via=Newspapers.com}}
Heaton's artwork can be found in museum collections, including at the Brooklyn Museum,{{Cite web |title=Maurice Heaton |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/artists/8791/objects |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=Brooklyn Museum}} the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{Cite web |title=Maurice Heaton "Africa" Bowl |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488591 |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |language=en}} Museum of Arts and Design,{{Cite web |title=Propeller Dish |url=http://collections.madmuseum.org/objects/details/1209;jsessionid=EE158B154C816AA91979301B73630020 |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) |language=en}} the Corning Museum of Glass, the Art Institute of Chicago,{{Cite web |date=1900 |title=Maurice Heaton |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/34883/maurice-heaton |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=The Art Institute of Chicago |language=en}} and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Category:20th-century American male artists
Category:American glass artists
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