Researching David Patchen
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 6 people with the Patchen surname? In that year Patchen was ranked number 3573 for popularity in the UK. |

The name David means "beloved" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of David Patchen on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for David Patchen and the Patchen Family History
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 12 people with the Patchen surname in the UK? Patchen is now ranked number 4030 for popularity in the UK. |
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Some Famous People called David Patchen
David Patchen
David Scott Patchen is an American glass artist who uses the techniques of cane and murrine in an American style. (Cane are colored and patterned glass rods, murrine are patterned cross-sections of glass 'tiles'.) Patchen's work is known primarily for a combination of complexity and scale in densely patterned glass. His work is in many private and public collections internationally, featured in many publications and frequently in juried shows such as SOFA (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art), Chicago, ART Shanghai and ART Palm Beach. His work is shown in galleries in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Patchen was awarded an artist residency in 2010 in Seto city, Japan where his visit was covered by the local media and included lectures, demonstrations and a show of his work at the Seto City Art Museum. His work has won awards and is in both private and public collections internationally. Based on Patchen's expertise, his book is part of the permanent collection of Giorgio Cini Foundation's Centro Studi del Vetro (Glass Study Center) library in Venice, Italy and the Rakow Library at the Corning Museum of Glass.
Most significantly, his work was featured in a cover article in Glass Art Magazine in the Mar/Apr 2016 issue. He has demonstrated publicly including at the Glass Art Society's international conference in 2015 and as Guest Artist at the Corning Museum of Glass in 2017.
Born in New Rochelle, New York, Patchen resides in San Francisco, California. Primarily self-taught since 2001, he works out of Public Glass in San Francisco. Informal education included visits to the studio of Afro Celotto, maestro and former assistant to Lino Tagliapietra in Murano, Italy, and an artistic merit scholarship to the Pilchuck Glass School. Early in his career, Patchen assisted several artists including Afro Celotto and Marvin Lipofsky in creating their work.
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