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Louis Comfort Tiffany was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in art glass, especially stained glass and Favrile glass. He is associated with the art nouveau and aesthetic art movements. He was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and…
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culture · American art glass designer (1848–1933) · painter · photographer · designer · interior designer · glass artist · jewelry designer · also Louis Comfort Tiffany, L. C. Tiffany, Louis Tiffany, Louis C. Tiffany, Tiffany
Born 18 February 1848 · Died 17 January 1933 · Q312950
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“The exact nature of Arthur Nash's business relation to Tiffany remains problematic. That [one firm] was named the Stourbridge Glass Company in deference to Arthur Nash's previous work in England suggests Nash's eminence and influence.”
The New York Times: John Loring, Longtime Design Director at Tiffany & Company, Dies at 86
insider.si.edu: The mosaics of Louis Comfort Tiffany / Edith Crouch
Artnet news: DESIGNED BY LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY FOR TIFFANY & CO.: AN 18K GOLD, OPAL, DEMANTOID GARNET AND ENAMEL NECKLACE, CIRCA 1900
The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired her stained glass triptych entitled Garden Landscape
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Wall Street Journal: Louis Comfort Tiffany
The church sold the window to the Art Institute of Chicago
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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2007).
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An exhibit at the New-York Historical Society featured new information about the women who worked for Tiffany and their contribution to designs credited to Tiffany; the Society holds and exhibits a major collection of Ti
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And is interred in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City
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Died 1933-01-17.
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Louis Tiffany subsequently died in 1933.
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Tiffany Studios filed for bankruptcy
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At Laurelton Hall, and his wife Jeannette Genius McKean rescued the chapel, which now occupies an entire wing of the Morse Museum which they founded
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The firm underwent a name change, and was renamed the A
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And moved to Los Angeles to work for Judson Studios
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Leslie Nash, a creative artist and designer in his own right, had a major influence on Tiffany's production
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In the waning period of Tiffany Furnaces, Tiffany and Leslie Nash—inspired by motifs from King Tutankhamen's recently discovered tomb—designed an elaborate special order," for the wife of Chicago millionaire Cyrus McCorm
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The firm was incorporated as the Louis C
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Tiffany's glass production was reorganized under Nash's son, A
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After the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company bought the land to build their new headquarters
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At Lloyd and Wayland Street as Central Baptist and in 2003, became known as Community Church of Providence
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Tiffany removed the bulk of it to Laurelton Hall
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Tiffany created stained glass windows for the Stanford White-designed Madison Square Presbyterian Church located on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, New York City
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Julia Munson became the head of Tiffany & Co
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Came into an inheritance equivalent today to more than $20 million
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Tiffany had been influenced by a Cypriote line of jewelry that his father, Charles Lewis Tiffany, had introduced earlier at the Turin World's Fair
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Became known as the Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company in Corona, Queens
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Tiffany became the first design director for Tiffany & Co
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Tiffany formally adopted the trademark Tiffany Studios for all works made in Corona, though the imprint had apparently been used earlier
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For the original American Church building on the right bank of the Seine
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At the Exposition Universelle in Paris, he won a gold medal with his stained glass windows The Four Seasons
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His company also introduced the term Favrile in conjunction with his first production of blown glass at his new glass factory
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(in deference to the technique learned from Nash's hometown), to the Tiffany Glass Furnaces, and finally to the Tiffany Studios
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Became its chief window designer in 1897, and head of the Ecclesiastical Department in 1899
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Tiffany built a new factory called the Stourbridge Glass Company, later called Tiffany Glass Furnaces, which was located in Corona, Queens, hiring the Englishman Arthur J
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A "Women's Glass Cutting Department" with six female employees under Driscoll's direction was created, and in two years, this had increased to thirty-five
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Founded his own glassworks, the Louis C
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And the Tiffany Studios in 1900
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At the Paris Exposition, Tiffany was said to have been "overwhelmed" by the glass work of Émile Gallé, French Art Nouveau artisan
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Moved to New York City to study at the Metropolitan Museum of Art School
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Julia DeForest Tiffany (1887–1973), who married Gurdon S.
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Tiffany did the interior design of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, which still remains
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Joined with Candace Wheeler, Samuel Colman, and Lockwood de Forest to form Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists
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Charles Louis Tiffany II (1878–1947) who married Katrina Brandes Ely;
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In Norwich, Connecticut, and had four children:
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And 1867 and with salon painter Leon-Adolphe-Auguste Belly in 1868 and 1869
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Born 1848-02-18.
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