Contact information
Name:
Michiko Okaya ; Diane Shaw
Phone:
6103305361
Email:
artgallery@lafayette.edu
Link for More Information:
When:
Friday, March 4, 2016 (All day) - Saturday, June 4, 2016 (All day)
Where:
Williams Center Gallery
Price:
Free
Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color and Light, from the Neustadt Collection illustrates Louis Comfort Tiffany’s masterful use of opalescent glass to achieve painterly results. As a painter Tiffany was captivated by the interplay of light and color, and this fascination found its most spectacular expression in his glass “paintings.” Through the medium of opalescent glass, Tiffany could actually capture light in color and manipulate it to achieve impressionistic effects. Using new and innovative techniques and materials, Tiffany Studios created leaded-glass windows and lampshades in vibrant colors and richly varied patterns, textures, and opacities.
Organized by The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in New York City, Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color and Light is comprised of windows, lamps, and pieces of opalescent flat glass and pressed-glass “jewels” that illustrate the rich expanse of color and light available to the artists at the Tiffany Studios; they exemplify the rich and varied glass palette, sensitive color selection, and intricacy of design that was characteristic of Tiffany’s leaded-glass objects.
This exhibition would not have been possible without the generous support of Ellen Kravet Burke ’76 and Ray Burke '75, in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Larry Kravet, Floral Park, New York.
Tiffany Glass is one of three exhibitions celebrating “Tiffany at Lafayette" organized by the Lafayette Art Galleries and Special Collections and Archives.
Sponsored by:
Lafayette Art Galleries and Skillman Library Special Collctions