Catalog Design and Collection Photography: Genevieve Whittell ‘17
For more information on the Alice and John Tyler Gallery at Marymount High School, please email pascal@mhs-la.org.
Jacqueline L. Landry Head of School 2009 - 2024
Every once in a while a nova breaks into our awareness like a meteor, but often it goes unseen unless the right circumstances bring the talent to our lives and cognition. Such a talent is Pascal, the only woman glass sculptor in the world. How did this amazing woman find this elusive, impossibly difficult, unforgiving medium of glass to be her subject to bring such beauty into the world?
Marymount High School is honored to be the new home for Pascal’s prestigious collection, The Alice and John Tyler Pascal Glass collection, formerly housed at the Corcoran Museum In Washington, D.C. How fitting that the new home is Marymount High School: inspiring boldness, art and creativity for women for over one hundred years.
Pascal’s magnificence must not be obscured, it must inspire, speak and shout the intelligence of women to future generations of young women. Pascal’s legacy will continue with this most generous and monumental gift to Marymount High School.
Born in Miles City, Montana in 1914 to Charles Pascal and Ann Kenny, Pascal’s passion and appreciation for art began at an early age. Her mother cultivated her passion for art, sending her to Europe to study under master artists and grow her craft.
In the 1960’s Pascal discovered an abandoned glass foundry in Dunbar, Pennsylvania containing tons of exquisite glass boulders which had been tempered in such a way that she was able to carve the glass with a hammer and chisel, and thus a new medium was born.
Pascal invented her own tools and technique with which to work with the glass, a medium known for its difficulty and danger. Pascal has carved the largest single piece of glass, which stands 7 feet tall and weighs 2 1/2 tons, “Seated Torso,” the Tour de Force of her life, to delicate crystal rings bedecked with jewels, architectural stainless-steel masterpieces standing 47 feet tall and oil paintings rich with vibrant color and life. Pascal has successfully mastered three art mediums and in the process has garnered notoriety and recognition most artists are not privileged to witness and enjoy in their lifetime.
Pascal’s work gained worldwide recognition over the course of her career with pieces becoming widely exhibited and collected by President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan, Armand Hammer, Paul Newman, and Frank Sinatra among others.
Her stainless steel work has been used for the Television Hall of Fame Awards and her monumental stainless steel sculptures stand prominently at the United Nation Missions Building in Geneva, Switzerland and the University of Southern California.
After Pascal’s death in 2021, the Alice and John Tyler Collection was gifted to Marymount High School by Susanne Jill Buffano Petty ‘59, a Trustee of the Tyler Trust.
Oil on board.
40” x 38” in carved and gilt Belgian Louis XVI frame.
Oil on board.
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Oil on board.
34 ½” x 45 ½” in goldgilt Belgium frame.
LE MILET DAN AMOUR
verso)
Oil on board. 24” x 12” framed.
Self-Portrait Clown was painted during a most difficult time in Pascal’s life.
Mother’s Chair was painted three days after the death of Pascal’s adored mother, Ann Kenny.
Pencil, watercolor and gouache.
8” x 6” framed and glazed.
Swarovski pale amethyst crystal on stainless steel and black lucite base.
3 ½” x 2 ¼” x ¾”
Moods of Love depicts the heads of a woman and a man seemingly kissing, though Pascal mounted them on swivel pedestals to turn them away from each other as though in a lovers’ quarrel.
The woman’s head is mounted with a 14k gold flower in her hair and is removable as a brooch.
Aquamarine glass on gold swivel pedestal. 6 ¼” x 3” x 1 ¼”
Aquamarine glass on gold-plated stainless steel base.
5 ½” x 2 ¾ “ x ¾” archival image
Blue Swarovski Austrian crystal. 4 ½” x 3 ¼” x 5”
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ANGEL IN FLIGHT
Clear Swarovski crystal on gold-plated stainless steel base.
7” x 3 ¼” x 1 ½”
Acrylic on lucite base.
8” x 3 ½” x 6 ¾” not pictured
Pennsylvania black sculpted glass.
11 ½” x 7 ¼” x 6 ¾”
Pink Swarovski crystal on acrylic base.
5 ½” x 2 ½” x 1 ½”
Emerald green glass on stainless steel base.
10 ¼” x 9 ½” x 5”
Blue-green glass on stainless steel base. 15” x 6” x 3”
Dance of the Lovers depicts a couple dancing. The space between the bodies and heads was accomplished with great difficulty, risk, and time, making this the first and last of this type of sculpture Pascal would undertake.
Amethyst Swarovski crystal on stainless steel base. 9” x 6” x 6”
Blue-green Swarovski crystal on stainless steel base.
9” x 7 ½” x 9”
Pale green glass on stainless steel base. 13 ¼” x 5 ¼” x 9 ¼”
Brilliant blue Swarovski crystal on stainless steel base.
5 ½” x 2 ¾” x 7”
Stainless steel ribbon sculpture with 14 kt. gold-plated finish. 21” x 14” archival image
Light green glass on stainless steel base.
Stainless steel cutout. 9 ¾” archival image
Mixed media of varied colored green glass and welded stainless steel on stainless steel base. 22 ½” x 7” x 12”
Vision of the Artist depicts a figure representative of Pascal standing amongst glass boulders and holding a glass sculptured head. Pascal had been adamant that never would she combine sculptured glass with sculptured steel, however, when Alice Tyler commissioned a likeness of the artist, she reminded Pascal of a photo she had seen of her standing in pieces of raw glass, considering selections for sculptures.
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Stainless steel welded stabile, suma-plated. 13’2” x 4’6” x 4’6” archival image
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Artist’s Proof. Clear crystal mounted with 14k gold, cubic zirconia, and simulated colored gemstones.
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Aquamarine glass with 14k gold chain inlaid with 28 diamonds.
3 ¼” x 1 ¾” x ¾”
Aquamarine glass mounted in 14k gold, set with 155 diamonds and precious stones.
3 ¼” x 1 ½” x 1”
Aquamarine glass, black and white enamel, set with 4 diamonds.
2 ¾” x 1 ½” x 1”
Pennsylvania black glass mounted in 14k gold and set with 79 diamonds and turquioise.
3” x 1” x 1”
Pale aquamarine glass mounted in 14k gold and set with 14 turquoise stones.
1 ½” x 1”
Egyptian Lady with Headdress was formerly a finger ring, accidentally crushed in the door of an automobile. For fun, Alice Tyler surprised Pascal by wearing the ring as a pendant on a gold chain and from there evolved a cosmetic rejuvenation. The upside down damaged face became the back of the head, and what had been the lady’s hair Pascal recarved as a lady’s face. The turquoise bangle with loop for chain completed the restoration
Baccarat glass mounted in 14k gold and set with 12 diamonds and emeralds.
Green Swarovski crystal mounted in 14k gold and inlaid with 53 diamonds and emeralds.
3” x 3 ¼” x 1 ¼”
Aquamarine Swarovski crystal mounted in 14k gold and set with 72 diamonds.
5 ½” x 1 ½” x ¾”
Aquamarine glass mounted in 14k gold and set with 77 diamonds and precious stones.
5” x 2 ¼” x 1”
Aquamarine glass mounted in 14k gold and set with 52 diamonds.
2 ¼” x 2 ½” x 1”
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Blue-green Swarovski crystal mounted in 14k gold and platinum and set with 130 precious stones and diamonds.
3 ¾” x 2” x 1 ½”
Aquamarine glass mounted 14k gold and set with 6 diamonds.
3 ¼” x 1 ¼” x 2 ¾”
