Orlando, FLA.: You're thinking roving packs of sunburned children who let their ice cream drip on your toes as you wait to ride Space Mountain. You're thinking overpriced hot dogs and hotel pools crammed with little kids leaving warm spots. All...
The artistry and master techniques of the most prominent designers of jewelry and luxury goods at the end of the Gilded Age --- and the rivalry between them --- is explored in Artistic Luxury: Faberge, Tiffany, Lalique, an exhibition of...
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Francis Guy, Winter Scene in Brooklyn, c. 1817-1820, Oil on canvas; 41 x 64 in.
The Dallas Museum of Art recently acquired four highly significant works of American art through the Eugene and...
As my favorite places go, the grand old building once home to the Chicago Public Library, gets my top vote. Now known as the Chicago Cultural Center, it sits proudly on Michigan Avenue with entrances on Washington and Randolph Streets.
In the...
NASHVILLE.- Tiffany by Design celebrates the artistry and craftsmanship of the colorful leaded glass lamps produced by Tiffany Studios between 1900 and 1918. The exhibition examines the beautiful design and complex fabrication of 40 lamps,...
For fans of art and design, Tiffany Studios' lamps represent the very embodiment of a classic early 20th-century aesthetic. Expertly crafted from leaded glass, the shades radiate a luminous, carefully composed array of colors, while the...
Background
Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass and is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. Tiffany was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewelry, enamels and metalwork.
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