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PART 10 | Landscape

Tiffany's Dream Garden: New Perspectives in Glass
Articles

Preserving the Oak Tree: The Fontainebleau Forest and the school of Barbizon
by Veronique Chagnon-Burke

 
Tiffany's Dream Garden: New Perspectives in Glass
by Jonathan Clancy
 
Vincent van Gogh, The Weaver of Images: Starry Night, His Tapestry of Heavenly Consolation
by Jacquelyn Etling
 
Maya Deren and the Cinematic Landscape
by John Kaufman
 

A Psychogeography of Our Time: Roni Horn's Another Water
by Allison Moore

 

Dialogue with Sacred Landscape: Inca Framing Expressions
by Ruth Anne Phillips

 
Reviews

The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape by Allen Staley
by Mary Donahue

 

Gendering Landscape Art, edited by Steven Adams and Anna Gruetzner Robins
by Tina Gregory
 

American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820-1880
by Brian Edward Hack

 
Kahlo/O'Keeffe Book
by Megan Holloway
 
Earthworks
by Julie Reiss
 
Practice
 
Urban Idylls
by Joshua Shamsi
 
Editor's Note
 
by Jonathan Clancy
 
 

ENDNOTES

1. Curtis Publishing Company, The Dream Garden, (Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Company, undated). This is a brochure that was printed by the company illustrating the mosaic and is not paginated or dated.

2. Martin Eidelberg, “Tiffany and the Cult of Nature,” Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany, (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993): 71.

3. Ibid 88. See also Alastair Duncan, Louis Comfort Tiffany, (New York : H.N. Abrams in association with the National Museum of American Art,1992): 61-2.

4. “An Interview with Mr. Louis C. Tiffany,” The House Beautiful, 34 (November 1913): 179. See Eidelberg, 88.

5. “’Modern Art’ Not Art at All, Says Mr. L. C. Tiffany,” Evening Telegram, February 30, 1916. See Eidelberg 88.

6. Charles A. Cole, “Painted Glass in Household Decoration,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 59, issue 353 (October 1879): 659.

7. “The Week in the Art World,” The New York Times, February 18, 1899: BR 102.

8. Various sources date this development to 1892/3. See for instance Martin Eidelberg and Nancy A. McClelland, eds., Behind the Scenes of Tiffany Glassmaking: The Nash Notebooks, (New York: Saint Martin’s Press, 2001): XIV, which provides an excellent chronology of Tiffany glass in this period. I have taken all dates from this source unless otherwise noted. Also Hugh F. McKean, The Treasures of Tiffany, (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1982): 43. The catalog reproduces a letter from Louis C. Tiffany furnaces to Homer Eaton Keyes, then editor of the magazine Antiques, regarding the system of marks used on the Tiffany items and the development of Favrile glass.

9. "Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, Tiffany Favrile Glass Considered in its Chronological Relationship to Other Glass, As Well As Its Usefulness in the Decorative Arts, and Appropriateness when Blown into Vases and Other Objects for Collector’s Cabinets, Holiday and Wedding Presents", (New York: Tiffany Glass & Decorating Co., 1896): 5.

10. "Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, Tiffany Glass Mosaic for Walls, Ceilings, Inlays and other Ornamental Work; Unrestricted in Color, Impervious to Moisture and Absolutely Permanent", (New York: Tiffany Glass & Decorating Co., 1896): 21.

11. H. L. Vivian, “Pictures in Mosaic, the Modern Development of an Ancient Art,” Clipping in the Archives of American Art, Scrapbook of Louis Comfort Tiffany, reel 4022.

12. Charles Rollinson Lamb, “How an American Stained Glass Window is Made,” The Chautauquan, 29, no. 6 (September 1899): 521.

13. Tiffany Studios, Mosaic Curtain for the National Theatre of Mexico, (New York: R.L. Stillson, 1911): 6.

14. Ibid.

15. “Glass Curtain for an $8,000,000 Theatre in Mexico,” The New York Times, March 10, 1912, 7.

16. Eidelberg and McClelland, 102.

17. The Dream Garden.

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid.

20. Ibid.

21. “Art Notes,” The New York Times, April 10, 1916, 6.

22. Ibid.

23. See for instance Nikolas Pevsner’s Pioneers of The Modern Movement from William Morris to Walter Gropius, (London: Faber & Faber, 1936) or Stephan Tschudi Madsen’s Sources of Art Nouveau, (New York: G. Wittenborn, 1956).

24. Eidelberg 82.

 

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