Summer 2017

2017 Antiques & Fine Art 113 Fig. 11 : Mosaic panel with peonies, about 1900–1910. Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company or Tiffany Studios. Glass mosaic, bronze. H. 13.6, W. 15.4, Diam. 0.79 in. The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York (77.4.91). Image: The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. special exhibition is the first to explore this little-known aspect of Tiffany’s artistic production. Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics is on view from May 20, 2017, through January 7, 2018, at The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, organized jointly with The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass. For more information, visit www.cmog.org. Th e exhibition is accompanied by the catalogue Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics , co-edited by Conway and Parrott. Kelly A. Conway , curator of American glass at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, and Lindsy R. Parrott , director and curator of The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in Queens, New York. 1. Advertisement in The Architectural Record , Great American Architects Series , No. 2 (February 1896): xiii. 2. “Beautiful Mosaics,” The (NY) Press (April 13, 1895): 7. 3. “A Handsome Glass Mosaic,” Baltimore Sun (June 21, 1897): 10. 4. “A Large Figural Mosaic,” New York Times , June 20, 1897, 15. The Last Supper series of mosaic panels are discussed in detail in Natalie Z. Peter’s essay, “Tiffany’s Ecclesiastical Mosaics in New York State,” Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics , Kelly A. Conway and Lindsy R. Parrott, Corning, New York: Corning Museum of Glass, 2017, pp. 132–140. 5. C.S., “Women and Their Work,” The New York Evening Post , August 30, 1899, p. 5. 6. These showrooms were located at 333–341 Fourth Avenue (today Park Avenue) from 1881 to 1905, when they were relocated to the corner of 45th Street and Madison Avenue. The company name also changed from Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company to Tiffany Studios during this period.