Glass Acts
Jun 12, 2020
4 minutes
BY JOHN DORFMAN
NBEKNOWNST to many, the Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, Kan., has been quietly building a major glass collection. Around 20 years ago, a local doctor and art-glass enthusiast named F. Price Cossman bequeathed his collection, which was particularly rich in Steuben glass, to the museum. Not only that, but he left money in trust for it to acquire more, and thus was the seed planted. We have a really wonderful endowment for the acquisition of Steuben glass in particular and growing the glass audience in Wichita,” says chief curator Tera Hedrick. Several years after Cossman’s death, the museum constructed
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