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Object NameLandscape Window
Artistic Director Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848 - 1933)
Manufacturer Tiffany Studios (American, 1902 - 1932)
Manufacturer Tiffany Furnaces (American, 1902 - 1920)
Made FromNon-lead Glass, Lead Came, Copper Foil
Dateabout 1905-1915
Place MadeUnited States, NY, Corona
Techniqueblown, cut, assembled
SizeGlass H: 208.5 cm, W: 74 cm
Accession Number81.4.168
Credit LineGift of Michael Cronin and Seymour Koehl
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Masterpieces of American Glass
American Glass: Industry and Art
Not On View
Interpretive Notes
The Tiffany Studios in Corona, Long Island, produced hundreds of stained glass windows. Although the majority of these windows depicted religious themes (since churches were Louis Comfort Tiffany’s most regular clients), the landscape windows best illustrate Tiffany’s range as a stained glass designer. In his landscape windows, Tiffany further defined his ideas for an American Art Nouveau style, using nature as his guide in the creation of original compositions in subtle and shifting colors. The original location of this window is unknown, but it may have been commissioned for a private residence.
Physical DescriptionColorless, multi-colored transparent and translucent non-lead glasses; blown and rolled sheet glass (rippled, mottled, striated, opalescent), cut, assembled with combination of lead came and copper foil, layered, some patination of lead and foil. Narrow rectangular comprised of three squarish panels (of different dimensions) stacked vertically depicting: foreground rocks, blades of grasses, a small pool of water cut from rippled glass (front lower left corner), branches of a yellow and ambering flowering bush (extending from left and right sides at mid-section), partial view of a large tree with thick trunk and overhanging branches (entire front left side and covering 3/4 of top panel), middle ground; unsigned.
Provenance
Source Seymour Koehl - 1981-12-16
Source Michael Cronin - 1981-12-16