(3) American Art Glass Decorative Pieces. Each one has a similar blue color scheme but is by a different artist: a bowl with a scalloped edge has a label from Lynn LaBarr (Born 1950) that reads "signature Corning, NY line, a perfume bottle with a squeeze tassel affixed to the top is signed, numbered, and dated '86 by Stephen Fellerman (Born 1951), and a stunning jack-in-the-pulpit vase is signed and dated '02 by John Barber (1952-2025).
Largest Size: 13 3/4 x 6 3/8 x 3 1/2 in.
Stephen Fellerman was born in Manhattan, New York in 1951, immersed in the arts from a young age and first experimenting with ceramics at the Pratt Institute before finding his calling in art glass after traveling to Sausalito, California in 1972. He returned east to Kent, Connecticut in 1973 to open his own glass studio, where he produced thousands of pieces and inspired numerous other artists throughout New England. Since 2007 he and his son Jason have been blowing glass together at a new home studio in Maui, Hawaii, and today his iridescent, Art Nouveau-inspired work can be found in major collections across the country, including the Corning Museum of Glass, the Chrysler Museum of Art, and the White House Art Archives.
Lynn LaBarr was born August 4th, 1950 in Bath, New York, and spent several years in the Army before returning to the States to work for Corning Glass Works in 1972, learning how to make molded Pyrex glass pieces. In 1983 he joined Steuben Glass as a gaffer and remained there until 2000, when he became a worker and demonstrator at the Corning Museum of Glass, shifting his focus even more towards Art Nouveau-inspired works. Many of his pieces are on display in the museum, and can be found in collections across the country.
John Barber was born into a family of artists in Chicago, Illinois in 1952, and discovered glassblowing by accident when he attended a lecture by Erwin Eisch in his first year of college. Inspired, he traveled to Germany and stayed with his sister while apprenticing under Eisch and taking a two-year intensive program at the State School for Glass Design in Zwiezel. In 1973 he returned to the United States and founded one of Southern California’s first privately owned glass blowing studios, John Barber Glass Designs, moving to a newer facility on Laguna Canyon Road in 1988. He became known for his meticulous research, focusing his interest on the rediscovery of lost techniques which produced the breathtaking glass masterwork of the Art Nouveau period, applying them to tabletop works ranging from stemware to bowls to freeform sculpture. In a career spanning over half a century he influenced a generation of new blowers, many of whom have apprenticed under him, including Gavin Heath, Marcus Thesing, Pete Lanigan, and Mike Panetta, and he and his wife Rebecca also co-founded the Studio Arts Gallery in Laguna Beach in 2020 to help support and showcase local artists’ works while struggling through the COVID-19 pandemic. He passed away on March 24th, 2025, with his works now more highly sought by collectors than ever.
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