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Powell (Paul) “Baltimore Glassman” Darmafall
Born September 25, 1925, Moundsville, West Virginia. Now resides Baltimore, Maryland.
In order to create the colorful glass collages that gave him the nickname of “Glassman,” Paul Darmafall finds broken bottles, smashes them into smaller pieces, and glues the resultant glass fragments to old boards. He is a self-described “Yankee Doodle Dandy”; his best collages depict patriotic images such as the early presidents, drum and bugle corps, the Statue of Liberty, and the American flag, but he can turn his glass shards into almost any image with the help of a little standard house-hold glue. When the glue has dried and the sun reflects off the glass, his art becomes a sparkling rainbow of beautiful color. He also often incorporates printed messages into his pieces.
Darmafall can frequently be seen riding around Baltimore on a bicycle decorated with a glass flag as he goes about collecting broken glass for his work. (“It’s a free country,” he explains.) He has become a well-known attraction in that city—“In fact,” he asserts, “that’s how I got discovered. People got eyes on their heads!”
*this entry was taken from: Rosenak, Chuck and Jan. Contemporary American Folk Art: a Collector’s Guide, p. 37-38. Abbeville Press, New York. 1996
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