Lecture | Tiffany’s Glass Visions of the Natural World: An Extraordinary Landscape Window
Three-Part Garden Landscape Window for Linden Hall (center panel), designed by Agnes F. Northrop, Tiffany Studios, New York, 1912, leaded favrile glass, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen
Three-Part Garden Landscape Window for Linden Hall (left panel), designed by Agnes F. Northrop, Tiffany Studios, New York, 1912, leaded favrile glass, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Three-Part Garden Landscape Window for Linden Hall (right panel), designed by Agnes F. Northrop, Tiffany Studios, New York, 1912, leaded favrile glass, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Three-Part Garden Landscape Window for Linden Hall, designed by Agnes F. Northrop, Tiffany Studios, New York, 1912, leaded favrile glass, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
May 9, 2024
The Annual Houston Antiques Dealers Association (HADA) Lecture in Honor of Katherine Howe / Speaker: Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
This lecture offers a behind-the-scenes preview of a magnificent leaded-glass window. The three-part Garden Landscape, recently acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is scheduled to be unveiled in New York this fall. Commissioned by a woman, conceived by a woman, and largely crafted by women, the window brings focus to the significant—yet largely unknown—role of women in the art of renowned glass artist Louis Comfort Tiffany. At the same time, it sheds light on the innovations of the glass chemists and workers at Tiffany Studios and the extraordinary illusionistic effects they achieved.
Plan Your Visit
- Included with Museum admission.
- This lecture takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater on the lower level of the Law Building. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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About the Speaker
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen is the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her purview includes 18th- to early-20th-century ceramics and glass; furniture of the Gilded Age and Arts & Crafts Movement; and the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany. She has curated exhibitions and authored publications on a wide range of topics, including the Herter Brothers with Katherine Howe of the MFAH. Frelinghuysen’s long-standing work on Tiffany has resulted in many publications, exhibitions, and lectures.
This MFAH lecture is endowed by the Houston Antiques Dealers Association.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Texas Commission on the Arts; and the Junior League of Houston, Inc.
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.
On Thursday, admission to the MFAH Permanent Collections is free for all individuals, courtesy of Shell USA, Inc.