David Whitehouse started as a medieval archaeologist but his professional love was the study of ancient glass. Born in Britain, he spent the bulk of his career at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, upstate New York, the world’s largest such collection. He became its chief curator in 1984, director in 1992 and then executive director and curator of ancient and Islamic glass in 1999. In 2011 he became the museum’s senior scholar. Under his direction, nearly 20,000 acquisitions were added, nearly doubling the museum’s holdings. From 1996 to 2001, David Whitehouse founded the first glassmaking studio within a museum. His vision was to provide a state-of-the-art glassmaking school that would train future generations of artists. He was also a prolific lecturer, author and curator, giving talks at conferences around the world, publishing more than 500 scholarly papers, reviews, monographs and books and curating numerous famous exhibitions.