The exhibition also explores Tiffany’s long and varied career: his early life as a painter studying and traveling in Europe; the links to his father’s firm, Tiffany & Company; his work as an interior designer incorporating glass in the designs he created for some of the notable figures of his day; his relationship with the Parisian art dealer Siegfrid Bing, who distributed his work in Europe; the techniques he used to create leaded-glass windows for religious buildings and private homes; and his development of Favrile glass, a process he patented and used to make iridescent vases and other decorative arts objects.
Conceived by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and organized in collaboration with VMFA and the Musée de Luxembourg, where it debuted last September.
The exhibition’s curators are Rosalind Pepall, senior curator of decorative arts at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; and Martin Eidelberg, professor emeritus of art history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. The exhibition is organized at VMFA by Barry Shifman, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Decorative Arts from 1890 to the Present.
The exhibition is generously supported by the Faberge Society | The Founders of VMFA and sponsored by Altria Group.
Frederick Wilson, Angel of Resurrection
Leaded glass, Erskine and American Church, Montreal
ca. 1902
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Clara Driscoll/Tiffany Studios, Dragonfly Lamp
Leaded glass, bronze, VMFA Collection
ca. 1906-1920
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Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, Good Shepherd
Leaded glass, Erskine and American Church, Montreal
1897
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Louis C. Tiffany, Peacock Vase
Favrile glass, gilded silver, enamel. Corning Museum of Glass
ca. 1898-1899
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Louis C. Tiffany, "Agate" vase
1904-06
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Louis C. Tiffany, Desk Lamp
"Turtleback" glass tiles, brionze, pressed-glass cabochons, New York Historical Society
about 1900-10
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Louis C. Tiffany, Flower-form vase
blown glass,The Museum of Modern Art, New York
About 1900
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Louis C. Tiffany, Jack-in-the-Pulpit vase
Blown glass, Detroit Institute of Arts
About 1914-15
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Louis C. Tiffany "Lava" vase
Favrille blown glass, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
1904-06
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Mounted vase
silver mount by Edward Colonna, with opals, Private Collection
About 1897
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Peacock Table Lamp, design attributed to Clara Driscoll
Leaded glass, bronze, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
About 1900-10
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Louis C. Tiffany, Pineapple Table Lamp
Glass, bronze, New-York Historical Society
About 1900-06
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Louis C. Tiffany, vase
blown glass, Metropolitan Museum of Art
About 1897
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Tiffany Studios/Louis C. Tiffany, Pond-Lily Table Lamp
bronze and favrile glass, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,
1902-20
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Tiffany Studios, Stamp Box
Gilt bronze, glass mosaic, mould-pressed glass, Collection of Dr. Gail Evra
1902-10
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Louis C. Tiffany, Vase with Millefiore Decoration
blown glass, Chrysler Museum of Art
About 1809-1900
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Louis C. Tiffany, Vase in the Form of a Persian Rosewater Sprinkler
Blown favrille glass, Chrysler Museum of Art
1898-1899
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