The only glass items on the Archives pages that are still made are the ornaments (available at Fresh Air Gallery, Clinton, AR, Arkansas Craft Gallery, Mountain View, AR, and E Street Gallery, Fayetteville, AR). All other items have been discontinued and are no longer available.
For use at Christmas or all year around. more Ornaments
Some styles available at Fresh Air Gallery, Clinton, AR
In the history of Red Fern Glass, a lot of different items have been made. The first products made were primarily historical reproductions of early American glass from the Ohio Valley, New Jersey and New England areas. These included flasks, bottles, vases, candlesticks, goblets, drinking vessels, perfume bottles, and a wide variety of functional glassware. A small amount of studio art glass, ornaments and original glass designs were also produced.
Red Fern Glass started up in July 1985 with Ed and Amy Jean Pennebaker (Nichols) in Salem, Arkansas. Early American Glass, Inc. was chosen as the corporate name of the business in 1988 even though Ed and Amy were still the only employees. In 1991 a move was made to a studio in the Ozark woodlands near Osage, Arkansas. Amy and Ed parted in 1994. Since then Ed has worked at glassmaking as a one person studio. He has had help at times with employees who helped in packing/shipping and office duties. His late wife Trish was a helper in the studio in the early 2000s and her daughter Katie assisted for several years also. All pieces sold were signed with either "EA" or "EP" and two digits for the year (85-99). There are occasional unsigned pieces that are either seconds or are in the artist's collection
Red Fern Glass was sold in many museum stores and shops including Smithsonian Institution Museum Stores, Historic Deerfield, Greenfield Village, Essex Institute, American Folk Museum and many others.
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Any pieces that were not directly influenced by a particular historical piece and had an element of originality or "one off" (one-of-a-kind) nature to it.
More images of art glass
These are replicas of early American types of glassware made from the New England States to the Ohio Valley late 18th century to early 19th century. Many of the pieces with the ribbed pattern (straight, swirled, or broken swirl) are "Midwestern" style glass. more images of bottles and flasks
The Seahorse Scent Bottles are a revision of the original early American bottle form with the addition of a foot and stopper. The Ribbed, Wrapped, and Atomizer styles are Ed's own designs. more perfume bottles
Bowls, Candlesticks, Tumblers, Goblets and all kinds of functional items.more tableware
Ed received his Master's Degree in printmaking and did a wide variety of two dimensional paintings and original prints before working with glass.
Drawings, Serigraphs, Paintings
more 2-D work
