Richard Marquis

'American Acid Capsule with Cloth Container', glass and cloth by Richard Marquis, 1969-1970,Metropolitan Museum of Art

Richard "Dick" Marquis is an American studio glass artist who was born September 17, 1945 in Bumble Bee, Arizona. He studied both ceramics and glass at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a BA in 1969 and an MA in 1972. In 1969, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to study the making of art glass for a year at the Venini Glass factory in Murano, Italy, becoming one of the first Americans ever to work in a Venetian glass factory. His modern glass creations tend towards the humorous, and often incorporate other materials.

Awards and Honors

2010 Neddy Artist Fellowship, The Behnke Fellowship, Seattle, WA
2009 James Renwick Alliance Masters of the Medium Award, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
2006 Lifetime Achievement Award, Art Alliance of Contemporary Glass
2005 Lifetime Achievement Award, Glass Art Society
2004 Libensky Award, Pilchuck Glass School and Artist Series Meritage, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville, WA
2000 Outstanding Achievement in Glass, Urban Glass, New York
Selected Distinguished Alumnus, College of Environmental Design, U.C. Berkeley
1995 Elected to the College of Fellows of the American Crafts Council, New York
1982, 88 Fulbright-Hayes Grant (Senior), New Zealand
1979, 80, 81, 82 Research Grant, U.C.L.A.
1974, 78, 81, 90 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1974, 75, 76 Australian Crafts Council Grant
1969 Fulbright Grant, Venice, Italy (Venini & Co.)
1967 President's Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley
1966 Eisner Prize for Design, U.C. Berkeley
1963 National Merit Scholarship

Public Collections

United States

• Alabama
  • Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
• California
  • Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
• Florida
  • Lannan Foundation Museum, Palm Beach, FL - Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art
• Indiana
  • Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
  • Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
• Kentucky
  • J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
• Louisiana
  • New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
• New Jersey
  • American Glass Museum, Millville, NJ
  • The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
• New York
  • Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, NY
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
  • Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY (formerly American Craft Museum)
• North Carolina
  • Mint Museum of Art/Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
• Ohio
  • The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
• Pennsylvania
  • Carnegie Mellon Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
• Rhode Island
  • Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
• Washington
  • Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
  • Seattle First National Bank, Seattle, WA
  • Seattle Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Seattle, WA
  • Swedish Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle, WA
  • Prescott Collection of Pilchuck Glass at U.S. Bank Centre, Seattle, WA
• Washington DC
  • National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Wash. D.C.
• Wisconsin
  • Johnson Wax Collection, Racine, WI
  • Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI

Australia

• Australian Council for the Arts, Sydney, Australia
• Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
• City Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
• Tasmanian Art Museum, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
• Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceton, Australia

Canada

• Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

Denmark

• Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark

England

• Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Finland

• Finnish National Glass Museum, Riihimaki, Finland

Germany

• Kunstmuseum, im Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf, Germany
• Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany

Holland

• National Glasmuseum, Leerdam, Holland

Japan

• New Glass Museum, Tsukuba, Japan
• Koganezaki Glass Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
• Sea of Japan Collection
• World Modern Glass Arts Museum, Hiroshima, Japan

New Zealand

• Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, New Zealand
• Museum of Art, Auckland, New Zealand
• National Art Museum, Auckland, New Zealand

Switzerland

• Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland

External links

• Richard Marquis - Official Website

Bibliography & References

• Behrstock, Barry B., The way of the artist, reflections on creativity and the life, home, art, and collections of Richard Marquis, Santa Ana, CA, Grand Central Press, Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2007.
• Gable, Carl I., Murano Magic: Complete Guide to Venetian Glass, its History and Artists (Schiffer, 2004). ISBN 0-7643-1946-9.
• Marquis, Richard, Richard Marquis, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, 30/11/2002-06/04/2003, Ebeltoft, Denmark, Glasmuseets forlag, 2002.
• Oldknow, Tina, Richard Marquis Objects, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1997.