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View of Oyster Bay

View of Oyster Bay





Relationship with : William Skinner

Date : 1906

Material : Stained glass window
Acquisition : Lent by Morse Fondation Inc. (1978)
Item 26 on 32
American Art
Element of architecture

Area related
Manhattan (USA)

Description   

The place that Louis Comfort Tiffany reportedly loved best - Cold Spring Harbor at Oyster Bay - may have inspired this window, which was made at the Tiffany's Studios about 1905. Blue, one of the Tiffany's favorite colors doniates. Wisteria, a recurring Tiffany motif frames the water and the rolling hills. Made for the William Skinner house at East Thirty-ninth Street in Manhattan, the subject recalls the many wisteria vines that surronded Skinner's country house, Wisteriahurst in Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts.
View of Oyster Bay
Louis Comfort Tiffany
William Skinner