Artist

Richard Marquis

born Bumble Bee, AZ 1945
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Born
Bumble Bee, Arizona, United States
Biography

Richard Marquis earned a B.A. degree in 1969 and an M.A. in 1971 at the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied glass and ceramics. On a 1969 Fulbright fellowship to study at the Venini factory in Venice, Italy, Marquis was introduced to the ancient millefiori and murrini glass techniques, in which thin rods (millefiori) or thin chips (murrini) of multicolored glass are fused together as one rod, which is then embedded in blown glass and twisted to prouce linear, spiral, and geometric patterns. Marquis is credited wtih being the first twentieth-century American Glass artist to use these techniques. His work is primarily inspired by California funk—an art movement of the late 1960s that rejected traditional art theories.

Marquis has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, Pilchuk Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine.

Kenneth R. Trapp and Howard Risatti Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998)

Works by this artist (3 items)

Emanuel Martinez, Farm Workers' Altar, 1967, acrylic on mahogany and plywood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the International Bank of Commerce in honor of Antonio R. Sanchez, Sr., 1992.95
Farm Workers’ Altar
Date1967
acrylic on mahogany and plywood
On view
Emanuel Martinez, Tierra o Muerte, 1967, screenprint on manila folder, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1996.8, © 1967, Emanuel Martinez
Tierra o Muerte
Date1967
screenprint on manila folder
Not on view
Emanuel Martinez, Cesar Chavez, n.d., pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Haynes Family, Jorge, Roxanne, Rebecca and Ben, 1998.155
Cesar Chavez
Daten.d.
pencil on paper
Not on view

Exhibitions

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Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery
November 13, 2015March 6, 2022
Connections is the Renwick Gallery’s dynamic ongoing permanent collection presentation, featuring more than 80 objects celebrating craft as a discipline and an approach to living differently in the modern world.