Louis Comfort Tiffany at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Softcover

Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300085591 ISBN 13: 9780300085594

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999

Synopsis

Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) was one of America's preeminent masters of the decorative arts. Although he is best known for his prodigious achievements in glass, especially for his vibrantly colored windows and lamps, Tiffany excelled in a wide range of media - mosaics, enamels, metalwork, ceramics, and jewelry - all handsomely represented in this publication by pieces from the Metropolitan Museum's outstanding collection of Tiffany works.
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum, presents Tiffany's works in the context of his career, discusses his artistic themes and his devotion to nature, and sheds new light on his technical virtuosity. She has illustrated her text with many of Tiffany's water-color presentation drawings selected from the more than 400 in the Museum's collections. Many of these drawings, made by Tiffany and his artists over a period of forty years, are reproduced here for the first time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0300085591
• ISBN 13: 9780300085594
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100