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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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