Sentinel

Flameworked Pyrex glass sandblasted, then fumed with gold and silver.

Sentinel was selected for inclusion in the 1997 New Glass Review 18, an international competition sponsored by The Corning Museum of Glass.

An illustrated catalog of the juried competition was published in Neues Glas/New Glass magazine, German Language Publications, 153 S. Dean Street, Englewood, NJ 07631.

"In 1996, more than 6,000 copies of the New Glass Review 18 prospectus were mailed. Each entrant could submit a maximum of three slides. A total of 826 individuals and companies representing 40 countries submitted 2,235 slides. The 100 objects illustrated in this Review are retained in the Rakow Library of The Corning Museum of Glass, where they may be viewed by the public. Copies of slides published in any of the past Reviews may be purchased by special order from the Museum's Sales Department, which can also supply all back issues of the Review in black-and-white microfiche.

The Corning Museum of Glass would like to thank all of the artists and designers who submitted their slides to New Glass Review for consideration." -- Note from New Glass Review 18, published in Neus Glas/New Glass, Feb. 1997, page 78.
 

Above, page 78 of Neus Glas/New Glass, February 1997. The caption for Rex's work reads:

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18. Rex Cravat
P.O. Box 294
Taylor Falls, Minnesota 55084

Flameworked Pyrex glass, fumed with gold and silver, sandblasted.
Flammenbearbeitetes Pyrex mit Gold und Silber dedampft, sandgestrahit.
H: 26.3 cm, W: 33.8 cm, D: 20.4 cm.
TSB, KS.

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The initials following the dimensions of the piece represent the jurors who voted to include Rex's work in the Review: TSB is Thomas S. Buechner, Founding Director of the Corning Museum of Glass; KS is Kiki Smith, Artist, New York, NY.

New Glass Review 18 , Standard Book Number 0-87290-140-8. ISSN: 0275-469X. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 81-641214.

For copies of New Glass Review, please contact:

The Corning Museum of Glass
Sales Department
One Museum Way
Corning, NY 14830-2253
Telephone: (607) 937-5371
Fax: (607) 937-3352.

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Rex long aspired to have his work represented in the collection of The Corning Glass Museum. In our last conversation a few months before he died, I asked if the museum owned any of his work yet. He said "No", that he'd been in touch with someone at the museum who was interested in selecting a piece of his work, but as a donation, not a purchase, and that he hadn't had the financial breathing room to be able to give a major piece away.

After Rex died, I wrote to the museum to ask if the curator would be interested in a donation of his work to their collections, should anyone care to donate one of his finest works, and received this reply:

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Dear Jerry Ferrin,

Thank you for your e-mail message regarding the work of Rex Cravat.

The Museum would be interested in receiving one example of Cravat's work, and I would like to be able to choose the work from the pieces available. Can you send me photographs by mail or e-mail?

I must warn you, as I warn all donors, that there is no guarantee that Cravat's work will be displayed.

If you are willing to accept these conditions, please send me photos at your convenience.

Thank you for your interest in The Corning Museum of Glass.

Yours sincerely,

Tina Oldknow

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Tina Oldknow
Curator of Modern Glass
The Corning Museum of Glass
One Museum Way
Corning, NY 14830
T: 607 974-8308
F: 607 974-8470
E: OldknowT@cmog.org

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I wish I owned one of the pieces Rex considered fine enough to have be in the collection of the Corning Glass Museum, because I'd donate it to the museum in an instant with the good feeling of knowing that one of Rex Cravat's fondest dreams had finally come true.

If you, personally, own some of Rex's finest work, I hope that you'll consider donating a piece of it to the museum so that his work will be represented in what he considered to be the finest collection of glass in the world.

Jerry Ferrin, Tucson, AZ, 02/20/02.

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