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The Righteous Shall Receive A Crown of Glory

The Righteous Shall Receive A Crown of Glory

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Object Name: 
Stained Glass Window
Title: 
The Righteous Shall Receive A Crown of Glory
Department
American
Place Made: 
United States, Corona, NY
Date: 
about 1901
Material
AAT
glass
AAT
wood
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 383.54 cm, W: 233.68 cm; Frame H: 406.4 cm, W: 252.7 cm, D: 7.6 cm; Light Box H: 391 cm, W: 246 cm
Accession Number: 
96.4.230
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Randall
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Stained Glass Window, "The Righteous Shall Receive A Crown of Glory". Leaded glass; wood frame. Arched rectangular stained glass window in 12 sections. Scene of central figure flanked by two angels, turned and looking up at other angels holding cross and crown; geometric border design on sides and over the arch. Central base panel with etched inscription. Lower left panel with signature"Tiffany Studios/New York" etched on clear pane of glass placed over the colored glass panel. Opalescent and colored glass panes, some textured, held by lead cames and foil. Panes of the angel's wings, figures' robes and some border panels highly textured; those with faces, hands and feet painted. Glass chunks as jewel-work in cross, on crown, and on headband of one angel. Brainard Memorial Window commissioned for the United Methodist Church, Waterville, New York.
Label Text
Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933) was the son of the well-known jeweler Charles L. Tiffany, founder of Tiffany & Company in New York City. The leading proponent of the Art Nouveau style in the United States, Tiffany was introduced to architectural and decorative glass through his interior design work. He is best known for his impressive stained glass windows, which illustrate religious as well as secular subjects, such as landscapes. From 1885 to 1928, Tiffany produced his famous stained glass lamps and art glass vases at his studios in Corona, New York.
Provenance
Randall, Bruce, Former Collection to 1996
Randall, Adele, Former Collection to 1996
Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion
Venue(s)
Museum of Biblical Art 2012-10-12 through 2013-01-20
Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion will consider the array of church decorations and memorials that Louis C. Tiffany (1848-1933) produced beginning in the early 1880s. For 50 years, working under a variety of company names, Tiffany oversaw production and marketing of a vast assortment of decorative elements for many of America’s leading congregations—Protestant, Catholic and Jewish. Tiffany employed designers, draftsmen, and craftspeople who produced decorative wall treatments, mosaic floors, lighting, furniture, altarpieces, pulpits, candlesticks, and liturgical vestments. A large component of the business of religious art also consisted of funerary memorials that ranged from simple bronze tablets and single headstones to leaded-glass windows and fully decorated mausolea. Works in many media—marble, glass, wood, metal, and fabric—could be had “off the rack” with minimal personalization or as one-of-a-kind commissions, designed exclusively for a particular patron. The success of Tiffany’s vision—measured in part by his prodigious output through his long career—was due not only to the quality and variety of the work, but to his ambitious advertising campaigns. Through a combination of showroom displays, sales catalogues, press releases, luxurious illustrated pamphlets, and installations made for national and international expositions, Tiffany ably marketed his designs to the public and clients alike. Through these various outlets, high-quality church and memorial designs became synonymous with his signature brand, Tiffany Studios. Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion will consider the breadth and depth of the firm’s oeuvre, and the place Tiffany Studios created for itself in American religious art. Featuring the leaded-glass windows most often associated with Tiffany, as well as mosaics, watercolor sketches of windows, interiors and ecclesiastic furniture, and archival photographs, the exhibition will show how Tiffany continued the grand tradition of religious art, transforming it to suit an American audience. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog published by D. Giles LTD of London.
Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion (2012) illustrated, cover; pp. 128-129 Cat. 44; BIB# 131479
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1996 (1997) illustrated, p. 6;
Recent Important Acquisitions, 39 (1997) illustrated, p. 179, #42;
 
 
 
 
 
 

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