lipsey glass: the stanford lipsey art glass collection

“Stan took great pleasure in the artistic nuances of composition, light, shadow, and color, developed over a lifetime of intensely peering through the lenses of his cameras–and also apparent in the depth and breadth of his diverse art glass acquisitions,” writes Judi Lipsey of her late husband in the forward to Brilliance, the coffee table book-sized catalog accompanying the Stanford Lipsey Art Glass Collection, currently on exhibit at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. 

Like all of his passions–newspapers, architecture, photography, jazz–Lipsey’s love for fine art glass works grew steadily, from piqued interest toward dogged pursuit of the definitive statement of a given artist’s intent. His initial casual interest led to a three-decade curation of a collection that the Burchfield Penney has called “worldwide in origin and world-class in quality.”

The collection includes the works of internationally renowned glass artists Harvey Littleton, Greg Fidler, John Healey, Michael Taylor, and Lino Tagliapietra, among others. 

The Lipseys gifted the collection to the BPAC in honor of the Director Emeritus Dr. Anthony Bannon, “in recognition of his and the Burchfield Penney’s contribution to the arts and cultural life of Western New York.”