The Paintings of Louis Comfort Tiffany:
Works from a Private Long Island Collection
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY
December 10, 2011 – March 18, 2012
Drawn from an important Long Island collection, The Paintings of Louis Comfort Tiffany: Works from a Long Island Collection is a major exhibition that showcases approximately 125 oils and works on paper by Louis Comfort Tiffany. This exhibition, the first focusing on Tiffany’s paintings to be seen in the New York metropolitan area since 1979, opens on December 10, 2011 and remains on view through March 18, 2012. |
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The Paintings of Louis Comfort Tiffany offers an uncommon glimpse into the artist’s personal world. Examples of Tiffany’s decorative arts, including three leaded-glass windows on loan from The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, are also on view.
Read the exhibit review in The New York Times.
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A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls
| This groundbreaking exhibition presents new information on the design and production of Tiffany objects, based largely on the recent discovery of correspondence written by Clara Driscoll, head ofthe Women's Glass Cutting Department at Tiffany Studios. A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls examines the design and managerial contributions of Ms. Driscoll as well as the role of the "Tiffany Girls"—the women under her direction responsible for making Tiffany lamps, windows, mosaics and other luxury goods. The exhibition also explores life in New York City at the turn of the century, as seen through the eyes of Clara Driscoll and described in her correspondence. |  |
Venues
New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
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February 23, 2007 – July 22, 2007
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Singer Laren Museum, Amsterdam
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December 2008 - August 2009
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Villa Stück, Munich
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October 2009 – January 2010
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Albuquerque Museum of Art and History
May 8 - August 21, 2011
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Flagler Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
January 31 - April 22, 2012
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Couleurs et Lumiere
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris September 16, 2009 – January 10, 2010
Tiffany Glass: A Passion for Color
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal February 12 – May 2, 2010 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA May 29 – August 15, 2010
Louis Comfort Tiffany is famous for the original and spectacular effects of color and light that he achieved in his blown vases, stained glass windows and lamps. This exhibition focuses on Tiffany’s outstanding contribution to design and the technology of glass.
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Louis Comfort Tiffany: Nature by Design
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
June 20 – October 25, 2009
lLouis Comfort Tiffany: Nature by Design explores the masterful use of natural motifs in Tiffany’s windows, lamps, glass vessels, furniture, ceramics, metalwork and jewelry. |
The exhibition features over 75 works on loan from museums and private collections, with seventeen lamps and three windows loaned by The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass. “Many of the works on view have never before been on public display, including a furniture suite from the Shelburne Museum’s permanent collection that has recently been restored and is being exhibited together for the first time,” said Senior Curator Jean Burks, who organized the show.
Highlights of the exhibition include a gallery devoted exclusively to Tiffany’s floral-inspired lamps, revealing his genius as a colorist and luminist. Leaded-glass shades featuring pond lilies, oriental poppies and peonies, which are complemented by the virtuosity of their sculptural bronze bases, are included. The intent of this gallery is to broaden the public’s understanding of the range of his production. Visitors may also explore the confluence of Tiffany’s innovative aesthetics and the sumptuous tastes of his Gilded Age patrons, the Henry O. and Lousine Havemeyer. The parents of Shelburne Museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb, the Havemeyers commissioned Tiffany to design furniture and fittings for their lavish Fifth Avenue mansion in New York City. The recently restored 11-piece suite of furniture from the Havemeyer’s Music Room is the focal point of this gallery.
Tiffany’s ceramics, with shapes and decorations drawn directly from nature, are also featured in the exhibition. |
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A final gallery aids visitors with understand how Tiffany & Co.—the silver and jewelry firm founded by Tiffany’s father—played a critical role in developing Louis Comfort Tiffany’s taste and introduced his innovative metalwork and jewelry designs to the world.
A catalogue authored by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Lindsy R. Parrott and Jean Burks accompanies the exhibition.
Click on the links below to view recent news coverage regarding the exhibition.
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Tiffany Glass: “A Riot of Color”
Muscarelle Museum of Art
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
April 18 – July 12, 2009
Tiffany Glass: “A Riot of Color” showcases highlights from the career of Louis Comfort Tiffany, whoseextraordinary interior designs made him the firstword in taste and sophistication in Gilded Age tained glass windows, glass-tiled fireplaces and blown-glass light fixtures were mainstays of Tiffany interiors. The exhibition will include an array of brilliant, jewel-like glass lamps, glass tiles, blown glass, and a stained glass window that together will illustrate the styles, themes and techniques with which the Tiffany studios experimented during the height of the Art Nouveau period. In 1913, Louis Comfort Tiffany threw an Egyptian-themed party at his Madison Avenue studio. A New York Times journalist described the event as a feast, “held in a riot of color.” Although this description refers to the elaborate costumes and entertainment, it is just as applicable to Tiffany’s glass – a feast for the eyes. |
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This exhibition is part of a regional effort to promote glass as an art form through participation in theArt of Glass program, which is organized by the Chrysler Museum and the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia in conjunction with the Virginia Arts Festival. While most of the particiating institutions will display contemporary glass, the Muscarelle Museum will be the sole venue devoted entirely to the stunning Art Nouveau glass of Tiffany from the period around 1900.
The Glass Experience
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
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March 13 – September 1, 2008
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Photograph: J.B. Specter
The practical applications and decorative uses of glass through the ages are highlighted and celebrated in this amazing exhibition that includes over 200 objects. From prosthetic eyes and bulletproof windows to brilliant-cut tableware and Tiffany lamps, the wonderful, mysterious material of glass has been an integral part of civilization's scientific and artistic development.
This exhibition invites visitors to enjoy an enormous variety of beautiful and unusual objects and observe live demonstrations on glassblowing and assembling leaded-glass windows. Featured artists include Louis Comfort Tiffany, Frank Lloyd Wright, Dale Chihuly, Lino Tagliapietra and Dante Marioni.
Art of Invention – Invention of Art
United States Patent and Trademark Office Museum, Alexandria, VA
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August 2007 – February 2009
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Seventy works of art that emerged from inventions, patents and trademarks are featured in this remarkable exhibition. The first section, entitled "The Art of Invention," highlights works from inventors and artists who studied and drew inspiration from the world in their quest for beauty such as Eva Zeisel's prolific work in ceramics and Louis Comfort Tiffany's creations in brilliantly colored glass, seen in the Poinsettia lamp on loan from The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in New York City. The second section of the exhibit, "The Invention of Art," features innovations that have been of great significance to science or industry, but also have collateral value as art; the images taken from space by the Hubble Space Telescope, for example, are considered objects of beauty because of their color and composition.
U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Jon Dudas notes, "The inventors and artists represented in this exhibit produced artistic treasures that also serve a practical purpose. Visitors may ask themselves, is it the art of invention or the invention of art? Either way, they will learn how the U.S. patent and trademark systems protect and encourage innovation, and they will learn about the men and women whose creativity has helped foster a strong, prosperous America."
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages
Traveling exhibition
October 13, 2005 - January 14, 2007
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages brings together more than 120 major works in a wide range of media including leaded-glass windows and blown glass, mosaics, enamels, art pottery, paintings, photography, metalwork, furniture and jewelry. This comprehensive survey juxtaposes media reflecting the breadth of Tiffany's oeuvre in thematic sections arranged by predominant influences on Tiffany's art: "Nature is Always Beautiful"; "Light Comes from the East"; and "Time is the Measure of all Things: Past and Future."
Organized by Exhibitions International, New York.
Venues
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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October 13, 2005 – January 4, 2006
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Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
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February 2, 2006 – April 30, 2006
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Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
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May 30 2006 – September 3, 2006
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Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
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October 14, 2006 – January 14, 2007
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The Spirit of Tiffany
The Ronald Regan Presidential Library & Museum, Simi Valley, CA
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November 27, 1999 – March 19, 2000
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The Spirit of Tiffany highlights the extraordinary work of decorative arts Louis Comfort Tiffany and his father Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of the renowned Tiffany & Co. This exhibition provides a rich survey of leaded-glass windows and lamps, decorative objects in all media, and fine jewelry produced by both Louis Comfort Tiffany's studios and Tiffany & Co. from the 1880s through the first decade of the 1900s.
Glory in Glass: Stained Glass in the United States
The Gallery at the American Bible Society, New York, NY
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November 12, 1998 – February 16, 1999
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Glory in Glass surveys masterworks in American stained glass from its modest beginnings, to the Gothic Revival, and the Arts and Crafts style. Concentrating on windows that are still integral to places of worship throughout the Unites States, Glory in Glass reveals the history, context, design, craft, and conservation of stained glass windows in America.