TIFFANY, LOUIS COMFORT

1848–1933, American artist, decorative designer, and art patron, b. New York City; son of Charles Lewis Tiffany. He studied painting with Inness and in Paris and painted oils and watercolors in Europe and Morocco. Later he established the interior-decorating firm in New York City which came to be known as Tiffany Studios. The firm specialized in favrile glass work, characterized by iridescent colors and natural forms in the art nouveau style. This work ranged from lamps and vases to stained-glass windows and a huge glass curtain for the national theater in Mexico City. His lamps became enormously popular in the 1960s and were widely imitated. In 1919, Tiffany established the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, which presently provides study and travel grants for art students. Tiffany is represented in the Metropolitan Museum by a painting, Snake Charmer at Tangiers, in the Museum of Modern Art (New York City) by several glass pieces, and most completely in the Neustadt Museum of Tiffany Art (New York City).

See E. Neustadt's The Lamps of Tiffany (1971).

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books on: Tiffany Louis Comfort  - 54 results

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Louis Rorimer: A Man of Style
Book by Leslie A. Piña; Kent State University Press, 1990
Subjects: Decorative Arts--United States--History--20th Century, Interior Decorators--United States--Biography, Rorimer, Louis--1872-1939--Criticism And Interpretation, Rorimer-Brooks Studios
...72 ; Hotel Pennsylvania, 69 , 72 ; St. Louis Statler, 68 Stearn, Abe, 6 , 26 , 124 n...77 , 78 Thompson, Louise C., 58 , 60 Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 12 , 37 -38, 125 n.3 Tiffany Studios, 38 Townsend, Reginald, 93 Triggs...
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Art Nouveau
Book by Robert Schmutzler; Harry N. Abrams, 1962
Subjects: Art Nouveau
...Hints to Lovers of Ceramics , New York, 1901 TIFFANY GLASS AND DECORATING DEPT. Catalogues of Memorial...and Glass Mosaics , New York, 1892-96 TIFFANY LOUIS COMFORT. The Art Work of Louis Tiffany , Garden City, N. Y., 1914 TOWNSEND CHARLES...
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The Gay Nineties in America: A Cultural Dictionary of the 1890s
Book by Robert L. Gale; Greenwood Press, 1992
Subjects: Eighteen Nineties--Dictionaries, United States--Civilization--1865-1918--Dictionaries
...gossiping old dowagers, and by lovable Stanley. Tiffany, Louis Comfort 1848- 1933 . Painter, designer, and glassmaker...he was the son of wealthy jeweler Charles Louis Tiffany, the founder of Tiffany and Company. Young Tiffany studied painting...
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Gateway to the Twentieth Century: Art and Culture in a Changing World
Book by Jean Cassou, Emil Langui, Nikolaus Pevsner; McGraw-Hill, 1962
Subjects: Art--History--19th Cent, Art--History--20th Cent
...letters W.C.L. 1900 . Berlin, Louis Werner 249 DAUM, the brothers...Copenhagen, Kunstindustrimuseet 251 TIFFANY, LOUIS COMFORT - New York 1848-1933- A painter...worker in glass and jewellery, Tiffany studied under Innes, and then...
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We the Women: Career Firsts of Nineteenth-Century America
Book by Madeleine B. Stern; University of Nebraska Press, 1994
Subjects: Women--United States--Biography
...B., Co., 290 Thurber, Lucy Dunham, 274 Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 279 , 280 , 281 , 282 , 283 , 284 , 285 , 286...Artists, 280 ff, 283 ff, 286 , 288 , 294 , 380 f Tiffany, Mrs. Louis Comfort, 279 Tilton, Elizabeth, 266 , 267...
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journal articles on: Tiffany Louis Comfort  - 21 results

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Color at the Center: Minnelli's Technicolor Style in Meet Me in St. Louis
Journal article by Scott Higgins; Style, Vol. 32, 1998
Subjects: Color, Minnelli, Vincente, Motion picture criticism
...Meet Me in St. Louis" from one to another...grounds, and she comforts Tootie on Christmas...the family in St. Louis. After the richly...as she attempts to comfort Tootie with "Have...resolution to stay in St. Louis, saturated dashes...and red shade on a tiffany lamp streaks across...
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Family-Centered Intervention and Satisfaction with AAC Device Training
Journal article by Amy Starble, Tiffany Hutchins, Mary Alice Favro, Patricia Prelock, Brooke Bitner; Communication Disorders Quarterly, Vol. 27, 2005
Subjects: Communication disorders--Care and treatment, Communicative disorders--Care and treatment, Developmentally disabled persons--Care and treatment, Developmentally disabled persons--Family, Developmentally disabled--Care and treatment, Developmentally disabled--Family, Domestic relations, Family relations, Speech therapy--Comparative analysis, Speech therapy--Methods
...Device Training. by Amy Starble , Tiffany Hutchins , Mary Alice Favro , Patricia...Other dimensions (e.g., familys comfort when using the AAC device), by comparison...Assessment and intervention. St. Louis, MO: Mosby. Philips, B., Zhoa...
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Home by Another Road: the 9 A.m. Service at Old St. Paul's
Journal article by J. Barrington Bates; Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 78, 2009
Subjects: Communion, Conferences, Episcopal churches, Leadership, Poetry, Prayer, Religious congregations, Stained glass, Traditions
...glass windows from the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany, as well as a large central chancel...Matthew 25:14-30). Among the Tiffany windows are depictions of an Angelic...a light grey mosaic reredos by Tiffany, featuring peacocks with opalescent...
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Seeking to Welcome the Multi-cultural Society in Which They Are Placed: Impressions of Four New York City Parishes
Journal article by Harry W. Shipps; Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 71, 2002
Subjects: Architecture, Catholic churches, Church of St Mathew & St Timothy-New York City NY, Church of the Resurrection-New York City NY, Church of the Transfiguration-New York City NY, Neighborhoods, Religious congregations, St Michaels Church-New York City NY
...apsidal or lancet windows above the altar. Executed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, they depict St. Michaels victory in heaven. The...epistle side of the altar, has a mosaic reredos by Tiffany. A large and rather recent columbarium of rich Byzantine...
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Exhibition as Dance: An Exercise in Creative Partnering
Journal article by Barbara Fahs Charles; American Studies International, Vol. 42, 2004
Subjects: Dance--Analysis, Dance--History, Dancing--Analysis, Dancing--History
...years. It is a landmark of American literary history. Designed by architect Edward T. Potter with interiors by Louis Comfort Tiffany and his collaborative, the Associated Artists of New York, the house is an expression of the Clemens aesthetic...
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magazine articles on: Tiffany Louis Comfort  - 27 results

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Tiffany-Inspired Windows
Magazine article by Robert Graff; Arts & Activities, Vol. 139, June 2006
Subjects: Art education--Analysis, Glass painting and staining--Design and construction, Stained glass--Design and construction, Tiffany, Louis Comfort--Influence, Tiffany, Louis Comfort--Works
Tiffany-Inspired Windows. by Robert Graff...new heights by the American artist, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), whose Art Nouveau style...identify and appreciate the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany. * understand that the...
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Meet This Year's Winners
Magazine article by Irene Chang, Ilisa Cohen, Melinda Dodd, Annie Finnigan, Tiffany Forte, Christina Frank, Wendy Gatsiounis, Susan Goldberg, Shaheen Pasha; Working Mother, Vol. 31, October 2008
Subjects: Boards of directors, Employee benefits, Maternity & paternity leaves, Polls & surveys, Work life programs, Working mothers
...specialist, who retrofits their workspaces for comfort. FLEX ABILITY Employees become eligible...site at headquarters and in the St. Louis office, while all employees have access...Monsanto building. MONSANTO Location St. Louis, MO What they do Manufacture agricultural...
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Museum Memo
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 135, July 2006
...Photographic Tribute to Susan Sontag, through Aug. 31, both at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Louis Comfort Tiffany, Saint Louis (Me.) Art Museum, through Oct. 29. The Print, the Pear, and the Prostitute: Art, Politics, and...
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Pipe Organs of the Rich and Famous Edson J. Bradley Washington's Whiskey Millionaire
Magazine article by Rollin Smith; The American Organist, Vol. 45, March 2011
...noted writer on the organ; J(oseph) Burr Tiffany (1856-1917), a cousin of Louis Comfort Tiffany; and an investor, Robert Gere, Tiffanys brother-in-law. Tiffany was a prominent interior decorator in Washington...
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Art and the American Story
Magazine article by Maggie Riechers; Humanities, Vol. 28, September 2007
Subjects: American history, Freedom of speech, Great Depression, Libraries, Painting, Sculpture
...Wlliam Van Alen, Joseph Stella, Dorothea Lange, and Louis Tiffany, The latter half of the last century includes works...PAGE 22) Joseph Stella, Brooklyn Bridge, c. 1919 Louis Comfort Tiffany, Autumn Landscape, 1 923-24 Edward Hopper, House...
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newspaper articles on: Tiffany Louis Comfort  - 46 results

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Works by Chihuly and Tiffany Will Shine in St. Louis
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 16, 2006
Subjects: Chihuly, Dale, Exhibitions
...gorgeous glasswork, head for the Saint Louis Art Museum as it showcases the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany with an exhibition that runs through Oct...transparent colored glass. (Visitors to St. Louis can see more of Tiffanys mosaic tile glasswork...
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Flash Back: Shedding Light on Tiffany ... under the Hammer
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), April 21, 2007
Subjects: Jewelry industry
...hurts no one - it can even be interesting. Well, Louis Comfort Tiffany and his fabulous lamps which fetch mega money are one such flight of fancy. Louis Comfort Tiffany was born in 1848, the son of a prominent New York...
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Gathering Lost History of Blacks
Newspaper article by Denise Barnes; The Washington Times, April 15, 1998
...collecting sports items - photographs of Joe Louis," says this native of White Plains, N.Y...memorable pieces was a iridescent gold-and-green Tiffany vase signed `Louis Comfort Tiffany, " he says. His prize artifact is a horn that...
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What Future for Museum Art in Washington?
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, December 30, 2000
Subjects: Daumier, Honore
...their beds. He also parodied the brutality of Louis Philippe as a pearlike glutton in "Gargantua...Horta in Brussels, Gustav Klimt in Vienna, Louis Comfort Tiffany in New York, and Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago...
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All That's Nouveau
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, October 7, 2000
...that ultimately traveled to the New York of Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Chicago of architects Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. Inspired...owned by Kate Cranston, his main patron. Tiffany, who invented a variety of advanced glass...
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encyclopedia articles on: Tiffany Louis Comfort  - 2 results

 
 
1.
Tiffany, Louis Comfort
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TIFFANY, LOUIS COMFORT 1848 1933, American artist, decorative...New York City; son of Charles Lewis Tiffany. He studied painting with Inness and...imitated. In 1919, Tiffany established the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, which presently...
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Stained Glass
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Morris was especially productive. A great contribution to American stained glass was made by John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany . In modern art the medium has been used with great effectiveness by Rouault, Matisse, and Chagall. Bibliography...


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