Tiffany: The Glass, an installation of two windows, eleven lamp shades and more than
two hundred examples of flat glass from the collection, explores some of the remarkable patterns,
textures and colors of opalescent glass used by the Tiffany Studios. This exhibition is the first
of its kind and focuses on the beauty and diversity of the material used in the creation of
spectacular leaded-glass windows, lamps, and mosaics produced under Louis C. Tiffany's supervision.
This display highlights some of the most commonly used types of opalescent glass produced at the Tiffany Furnaces in Corona, Queens from the early 1890s through about 1920, as well as glass purchased from commercial glass manufactures, including the Opalescent Glass Works in Kokomo, Indiana. The lamps and windows included in the exhibition demonstrate the ways in which these distinctive materials were used to replicate the details of the natural world.
Tiffany: The Glass is curated by Lindsy Parrott, collections manager and curator, and is on view at the Queens Museum of Art through 2007.
