Tiffany's Glass Mosaics will be accompanied by a new publication presenting the most comprehensive documentation and analysis of Tiffany’s glass mosaics to date. The volume advances scholarship in the field, and offers new perspectives for readers at all levels of expertise. Authors include the co-curators Kelly A. Conway and Lindsy R. Parrott, Elizabeth J. De Rosa, independent curator Natalie R. Peters, independent art historian; Jennifer Perry Thalheimer, curator and collection manager, Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of Art; and Karol B. Wight, president and executive director, CMoG. The appendix was meticulously researched and compiled by Morgan T. Albahary, curatorial and collection assistant, The Neustadt. It is fully illustrated with new photography of many of Tiffany’s most celebrated mosaic commissions, including The Dream Garden in The Curtis Center in Philadelphia and Jacques Marquette's Expedition in Chicago’s Marquette Building. Also included in the publication is a comprehensive appendix of all of Tiffany’s known public, ecclesiastical, and residential mosaic commissions, which serves as both a reference for researchers and a guide for anyone interested in visiting extant Tiffany mosaics.
Available May 20, 2017
Conservatory: residence of Mrs. Josefina de Mesa : Havana, Cuba
This design for residential conservatory features central fountain vase against large, square-paned window with small opalescent glass tiles along bottom. Window is colorless along top but decorated with flowers, possibly morning glories, along bottom and sides. Mosaics, or stencil, adorn lower right and left corners of design. Fountain features green vase, two tiers with green decoration, and large base. This fountain is similar to the one featured in Fountain Court at Tiffany's Laurelton Hall. Design is on "Favor, Ruhl & Co." monogram board.
On exhibit, September 11, 2017 to January 7, 2018.
Tiffany mosaic dome, Marshall Field & Co.'s retail store, Chicago by Marshall Field & Co.
This postcard features an illustration of the five-story balconied atrium in southwest corner of Marshall Field & Co. department store in Chicago; Tiffany mosaic vaulted ceiling dome pictured at top. Installed in 1907, this mosaic is made of iridescent glass and covers 6,000 square feet.
On exhibit, May 20, 2017 to January 7, 2018
Marshall Field & Company: store for men, sixth floor
This postcard features the interior of The Men's Grill on the sixth floor of Marshall Field & Co. department store in Chicago; Tiffany Studios ceiling dome pictured at top with Tiffany Studios fountain in center, surrounded by mahogany and leather furnishings.
On exhibit, May 20, 2017 to January 7, 2018.
On exhibit, May 20, 2017 to September 11, 2017.
Mosaic curtain for the National Theatre of Mexico by Tiffany Studios
The stage curtain for the National Theatre of Mexico is a stained glass foldable panel that portrays the snow-capped volcanoes Ixtaccihuatl and Popocatepetl.
The featured booklet describes the curtain: "The curtain contains more than 2500 square feet of glass mosaic, and weighs 27 tons. To insure its safe transportation from the Studios to the City of Mexico, it has been divided into 200 panels each 3 feet square, containing nearly one million separate pieces of favrile glass, which have been inlaid into a concrete composition impervious alike to heat and moisture. The glass was made at the Tiffany Furnaces at Corona, Long Island, especially for this particular work. It has had the personal supervision of Mr. Louis C. Tiffany from the beginning, and twenty mosaic workers have been continuously employed in its construction for a period of over fifteen months... The curtain will be operated by hydraulic pressure, and the time required to raise or lower it, seven seconds."
On exhibit, September 11, 2017 to January 7, 2018.
Character and individuality in decorations and furnishings by Tiffany Studios
This title includes: "interior decorations, lighting fixtures, furniture, draperies, rugs, landscape windows, Tiffany favrile glass mosaic, ornamental bronze, wrought iron, garden marbles, bronze lamps and desk sets, favrile glass."
Large scale graphic displayed in the exhibition.