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stained glass

Object NameLandscape Window

Artistic Director Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848 - 1933)

Manufacturer Tiffany Studios (American, 1902 - 1932)

Manufacturer(glass) Tiffany Furnaces (American, 1902 - 1920)

Made FromNon-lead Glass, Lead Came

Dateabout 1905-1915

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)

Modern

Exhibitions

American Glass: Industry and Art

Masterpieces of American Glass

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

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.

Place Made

United States, NY, Corona

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 cane 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.
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