The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of
American Art houses the most comprehensive collection of the works of
Louis Comfort Tiffany found anywhere.
Above, Pond Lily Lamp.
Left, Gentian Blossom Library Lamp.
Right, Cobweb Library Lamp.
A major collection of American art pottery.
Left, Black Iris glazed white clay.
Right, Daisies Glazed yellow clay.
Below, Glazed white clay (looks like blue orchids)
Fine collections of late 19th and early 20th century American
paintings, graphics and the decorative arts.
Left, 'Psyche and Cupid' oil on panel, Elihu Vedder
Right, 'Farmyard Fowl' oil on canvas,
Carl Jutz
Left, Still Life 'Purple Grapes' oil on panel, Carducius Plantagenet Ream
The museum is located in Winter Park,
Florida, USA.
It was founded by Jeannette
Genius McKean and was first located on
the campus of Rollins College. In 1955, the McKean’s organized the first
exhibition of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany since the artist's death in 1933. Here are additional examples of his work:
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| 'Pond Lily' decorative lamp, blown glass and bronze. |
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| The Lotus Pagoda design library lamp |
The 'Parrots'
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| Peonies leaded glass |
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| Peacock leaded glass |
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| Daffodils leaded glass globe, library lamp |
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| 'Four Seasons' Enamel, opal, sapphire, amethyst and gold jewel box. |
'Wistaria' leaded glass lamp shade with bronze vine completely covering the tp of the shade.
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| 'Candlestick lamp' |
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| Daffodils on base of 'Cobweb' lamp |
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| Look closely! While this may look like just bits and pieces, each actually creates a little flower. |
In 1957, Hugh McKean learned from Tiffany's daughter that Tiffany's estate,
Laurelton Hall, had burned to a ruin. McKean, who had been an art student at
Tiffany's Laurelton Hall estate in 1930, remembered Jeannette's exact words at
the scene of the devastation: "Let's buy everything that is left and try
to save it."
The Museum moved to a new location on East Welborne Avenue, Winter Park, in
1978. Then opened at its current location on Park Avenue in 1995, and now
has more than 19,000 square feet of public and exhibition space. In February 2017, the museum will celebrate its 75th anniversary. The Tiffany collection forms the centerpiece of the Morse Museum.
Paintings-watercolors
Plaster 'Checkers Up at the Farm'
Pottery
Plaster "Fern fronds" unglazed and glazed white clay
Jewelry, Jeweled Boxes and Enamels
Peacock and Flamingo enamel Necklace.
Enamel, opal, amethyst, ruby, demantoid, sapphire, garnet,
emerald, pearl and gold.
This is a reversible necklace.
Mosaics
Furniture
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| Parlor Organ |
Examples of Tiffany's pressed glass, decorative glass, hand blown glass, cut glass Favrile blown glass, and his love of Daffodils.
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| Petal and fan pattern pressed glass |
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| Daffodil column from Laureton Hall |
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| From Laureton Hall |
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| Blown glass |
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| Blown glass hanging globe |
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Gold over unglazed and glazed white clay
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' Morning Glory' Floral vase, paperweight technique
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Above and below are examples of the beauty, the delicacy and the artistic creation of blown glass.
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| Blown glass - front right "Trumpet flower" |
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| Front left: Lily blown glass |
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| Metal and enamel |
Below are examples of the many styles of vases and pottery by Tiffany.
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. He 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. He was the first Design Director at his family
company, Tiffany & Co. (the jeweler’s), founded by his father Charles Lewis Tiffany. The first Tiffany Glass Company was
incorporated December 1, 1885 and in 1902 became known as the Tiffany Studios. In the beginning of his career, Tiffany used
cheap jelly jars and bottles because they had the mineral impurities that finer
glass lacked. When he was unable to convince fine glass makers to leave the impurities
in, he began making his own glass. Tiffany used opalescent glass in a variety
of colors and textures to create a unique style of stained glass. He developed
the "copper foil" technique, which, by edging each piece of cut glass
in copper foil and soldering the whole together to create his windows and
lamps, made possible a level of detail previously unknown. This can be
contrasted with the method of painting in enamels or glass paint on colorless
glass, and then setting the glass pieces in lead channels, that had been the
dominant method of creating stained glass for hundreds of years in Europe.
In 1893, Tiffany built a
new factory called the Stourbridge Glass Company, later called Tiffany Glass
Furnaces, which was located in Corona, Queens, New York, hiring the Englishman
Arthur J. Nash to oversee it. In 1893,
his company also introduced the term “Favrile”
in conjunction with his first production of blown glass at his new glass
factory. Some early examples of his lamps were exhibited in the 1893 World's
Fair in Chicago. At the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris, he won a gold
medal with his stained glass windows The Four Seasons.
I end this chapter by sharing the famous Wisteria leaded glass -
More
of our adventures coming soon 🦋
Jan 🌷🌷🐾🐾
The 'Parrots'
2 comments:
Really nice pictures and custom stained glass looks awesome. Too much scrolling for one post, however. I suggest next time to divide all the content for several pieces.
Love the glass!
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