2 PIECES OF IMPORTANT SCOTTISH STUDIO GLASS FOR COLLECTORS - HELEN MONRO TURNER

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Helen Monro Turner ( 1901 - 1977 ) was one of the most influencial artists on the British glass scene in the 20th century . A graduate of Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art after several years of designing woodblocks and book covers as well as glass she was asked to found the Dept. of Glass Engraving at the Edinburgh College of Art in 1941. In 1943 she married Prof. W.E.S. Turner head of the Dept of Glass Technology at Sheffield University ( founder of the world famous Turner Museum of Glass ) and in 1956 set up the Juniper Green Studio just outside Edinburgh with her former pupil John Lawrie a renowned glass artist in his own right . In 1977 Helen Monro Turner died and in 2005 John Lawrie retired and the contents of their Juniper Green Studio were sold at auction in Edinburgh. So high was the regard in which the two were held in the worldwide glassmaking community that artists of the stature of Harvey Littleton ( founder of the American studio glass movement ) had sent his then pupil Sam Herman to study with HMT & JL . The collection in the studio contained personal gifts to the two from the likes of Littleton , Flavio Poli , and many other of the most respected glass artist of the day as well as a multitude of their own pieces . The two pieces offered here were purchased at that auction ( along with many other pieces read more
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