Douglas Merritt
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Commenced operations, specializing in Colonial Reproduction Glassware
1974-75 Began to develop and market contemporary and traditional Art Glass
1976 Vandermark work chosen for final show at the Corning Glass Art Society Seminar
1977 Featured artists at the American Paperweight Collectors Association meeting at
Wheaton Village, Millville, New Jersey
1980 Vandermark-Merritt Glass Studios’ “Applied Spider” Cameo Vase was one of
nine pieces featured in Art Craft Magazine’s review of the National Invitational
at Habitat Galleries, Michigan
1985 Featured in Wheaton Museum of American Glass Exhibit “Three Generations In
Glass: Erickson, Vandermark, Merritt”
1986 Commissioned to create hand-cut reproduction globes for the chandelier in the
Renaissance Revival Room of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art in New York City
1989 VMGS commissioned to make a special Limited Edition perfume bottle for
Jaclyn Smith’s “California” fragrance
1990 VMGS featured in “Paperweights & Perfumes ’90” Exhibit at Del Mano
Galleries, California
1990-91 VMGS featured in the “Special Delivery – Craft Americana” exhibit at the
Renwick Museum Shop of the Smithsonian Institution
1994 Douglas Merritt gave lecture to the Washington, D.C. Paperweight Collectors
1996 Selected for the NJ State Museum Show
1996 Participants in Spring Show at The American Craft Museum
1999 Listed in Who’s Who in America
2010-2013 Hosted Glass Blowing Demonstrations for Studio 7 Fine Art Gallery
Featured in the Collections of: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Toledo Museum, Chrysler Museum, Corning Museum of Glass, Wheaton Museum of American Glass, Smithsonian Institution, Boston Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Newark Museum, Sturbridge Village, Colonial Williamsburg and museums and private collections around the globe.
Classes are available with Doug Merritt at Vandermark Merritt Glass Studios in Branchburg, N J
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