John Littleton discusses his father Harvey Littleton’s persistence. Oral history interview with  Kate Vogel and John Littleton by Barb Elam and Caleb Weintraub-Weissman, conducted via telephone, December 12, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:05.

John Littleton: Oh gosh. Well, I think he was persistent; he was at the right place at the right time. He had enough background in glass with my grandfather being at Corning Glass Works [Corning, New York], and some of—there were some contacts through Corning that helped out along the way. But he also believed that you needed enough people doing it, making glass with the artistic intent that was part of his mode of operation. That was part of what he wanted to achieve. So, I think all those things came together, and, at the same time there were others who were experimenting with glass, but they didn’t put it all together the same way. And I think that that’s what really made dad successful with his aims to make glass a part of the university art departments and part of the world as we see it today anyway.