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Dandelion plant 95 [watercolor] [art original].

Dandelion plant 95 [watercolor] [art original].

 
 
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Author/Artist: 
Gouvy, A.C. (Alice Carmen)
Other Authors: 
Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 1848-1933.
Tiffany Furnaces (Corona, New York, N.Y.)
Record Number
Bib ID: 
89006
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Description
1 art original : watercolor on paper ; 54 x 36 cm.
Notes
On loan to the New York Historical Society October 2009-January 2010 for inclusion in their traveling exhibition titled "A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls" located at the Museum Villa Stück in Munich, Germany and at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History in Albuquerque, New Mexico from May 2011-August 2011.
Displayed in the exhibition titled "Tiffany treasures: Design drawings by Alice Gouvy and Lillian Palmié" held at the Rakow Research Library, March 24-April 30, 2010.
Conservation and matting completed by Michele Phillips, M.A.C., of Westlake Conservators, Ltd. in Skaneateles, NY in July 2007.
Photographed March 2009 (Photography no. 1000074690).
Published: in Jewelry and Enamels of Louis Comfort Tiffany by Janet Zapata (p. 70).
One of five Tiffany drawings selected to become a notecard in the Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass in 2009.
Drawing is of a dandelion plant with stems and leaves in shades of greens and blues with yellow flowers; a bee and another insect rest on two of the flowers.
Drawing was used to guide the production of a Tiffany lamp.
"Tiffany Furnaces" --
stamped on front.
"A. C. Gouvy" --
in pencil on front.
"#154/1.50" --
on back.
Biographical information on Gouvy published in: New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls by Martin Eidelberg et al.