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Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who is best known for his work in stained glass and is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau movement. Tiffany was a painter and interior decorator and designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewelry, enamels and metalwork.

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Louis Comfort Tiffany became interested in glassmaking from about 1875 and worked at several glasshouses in Brooklyn between then and 1878. In 1879 he joined with Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form 'Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists. Tiffany's leadership and talent, as well as by his father's money and connections, led this business to thrive.

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Tiffany used opalescent glass in a variety of colors and textures to create a unique style of stained glass. This can be contrasted with the method of painting in glass paint or enamels on colorless glass that had been the dominant method of creating stained glass for several hundred years in Europe. Use of the colored glass itself to create stained glass pictures was motivated by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and its leader William Morris in England. Fellow artist and glassmaker John La Farge was Tiffany's chief competitor in this new American style of stained glass. Both La Farge and Tiffany had learned their craft at the same glasshouses in Brooklyn in the late 1870’s.

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The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park (Orlando), Florida, houses the world's most comprehensive collection of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany including Tiffany jewelry, pottery, paintings, art glass, leaded-glass windows, lamps, and the incredible chapel interior he designed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

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An expansion of the Deedee Wigmore galleries in The American Wing is devoted to the arts of Louis C. Tiffany, one of the most versatile and talented American artists working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The collection highlights the Museum's preeminent collections and features Tiffany's windows, lamps, furniture, mosaics, blown Favrile glass vases, pottery, enamelwork, and jewelry. In addition, there is a rotating display selected from the Museum's collection of more than 400 design drawings from Tiffany's studios.

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Tiffany tended to favor naturalistic designs for his lampshades as well as his windows, which can be associated with his lifelong interest in horticulture, but also prompted by the popular Art Nouveau movement. The beautiful and innovative floral motifs for shades were implemented by a team of prize-winning designers, many of whom were women, including Clara Driscoll, Mrs. Curtis Fueschel and Agnes Northrup.

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Thank you for sharing the information and the beautiful images.

People used to have some of this artwork in their attics, not realizing the value of these items. A lot was thrown away as junk. I think that one of the US presidents, sadly, had a whole wall of Tiffany glass destroyed in one of the national buildings. Too bad to have lost a beautiful artwork so carelessly.

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Gisele
This might help Sue, I just found this on line:

Another interesting collection of "Favrile" is held in a museum in the small Northern English town of Accrington. Haworth Art GalleryThis collection was donated by a locally born man, Josepth Briggs, who left England in 1891, and who worked with L.C. Tiffany on many projects over many years, being Tiffany's works manager amongst other jobs. Briggs' personal collection was donated to the town in 1933.

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One of Tiffany's North African paintings

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Thank you for your post.I like Tiffany's work. It is quite ornate but has a beautiful unique artistic touch.

Tiffany was a painter, craftsman, philanthropist, decorator, and designer, internationally recognized as one of the greatest forces of the Art Nouveau style, who made significant contributions to the art of glassmaking.

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Although he created many decorative objects with glass, Tiffany is best known for his stunning, colorful lamps that incorporate elements of nature. A by-product of his windows, Tiffany created lamps so that more people could enjoy the beauty of glass and elements of nature, such as flowers in bloom all year long, in their own homes.

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