Material : Stained glass window
Acquisition : Gift of W. de Forest (1925)
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American Art
Element of architecture (Vitrail)
Area related
Boston (USA)
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This magnificent window, executed late in Louis Comfort Tiffany's career, conveys the late afternoon sun filtered through rich autumnal foliage. No paint was used to add detail. Rather, the modeling, texture and form have been created using the full range of glass developed at the Tiffany Studios. The variegated surface was made by wrinkling the molten glass on the surface, and different color effects were achieved by embedding timy confettilike flakes of glass in the surface. Plating, the superimposition of several layers of glass on the back of the window, added depth of color.
The window was commissioned in 1923 by Loren D. Towle for the stair landing of his enormous neo-Githic mansion in Boston, Massachusetts. Towle died suddently in 1924 shortly before the residence was completed, and the window was never installed. In 1925, Tiffany's cousin and close friend who was president of the Metropolitan and founder of the American Wing, gave the window to the Museum.
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