Louis Comfort Tiffany
A Wooded Landscape in Three Panels

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • A Wooded Landscape in Three Panels
Datec. 1905
PlaceNew York, United States
MediumGlass, copper-foil, and lead
DimensionsOverall: 86 1/2 × 131 9/16 × 1 3/4 in. (219.7 × 334.2 × 4.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number96.765.A-.C
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
109 Long & Sarofim Gallery
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DescriptionThis spectacular window is a unified forest scene spanning three panels. Like a living landscape, during the course of a day the scene changes in appearance, responding to the light surrounding it. A Wooded Landscape is far more complex than most stained-glass windows, which are pieced together in a process similar to solving a jigsaw puzzle. Instead, by layering different textures, thicknesses, and colors of glass on top of each other within the window—just as an artist might layer paint on a canvas—Louis Comfort Tiffany created subtle color combinations that change with variations in light. During his lifetime, it was said that Tiffany “painted” with glass.
Provenance[Unidentified dealer, possibly named Mr. Kasler, who acquired window from a residence north of Minneapolis–Saint Paul]; Private collection, New York, 1968; [J. Alastair Duncan, Ltd., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1996.
Exhibition History"Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany," Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art ; 1989-1990.

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