New York\u2014A new exhibition focused on the creative process behind Louis Comfort Tiffany\u2019s late 19th-century stained-glass creations is slated to open this fall at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.<\/p>\n
The artist, son of Tiffany & Co. founder Charles Lewis Tiffany, was known for his stained-glass windows, lamps, mosaics, interiors and other decor for mansions and grand spaces during America\u2019s Gilded Age, the post\u2013Civil War era that saw an unprecedented, and concentrated, accumulation of wealth.<\/p>\n
The objects produced in Tiffany\u2019s workshops were the result of a collaborative process that began in the studio, where artists\u2014often \u00e9migr\u00e9s and women\u2014realized his vision through initial artwork, according to The Met.<\/p>\n
\u201cDesigning the Gilded Age: Drawings from the Studios of Louis C. Tiffany\u201d showcases nearly 120 rare watercolor drawings created for commissions dating from the mid-1880s through the 1920s in the United States and internationally.<\/p>\n
\n The \u201cFour Seasons\u201d window by Agnes F. Northrop (1857\u20131953). At left, the drawing, and at right, the leaded favrile glass window, made for \u201cBurrwood,\u201d Standard Oil executive Walter B. Jennings\u2019 estate in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, constructed around 1897. (\u00a9 The Metropolitan Museum of Art)\n <\/p>\n
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