November 1, 2009 - October 31, 2010
West Bridge
This exhibit will include a selection of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s blown glass, designed by Tiffany and made at his glasshouse in Corona, New York, between about 1895 and 1920. He gave the glass the name “Favrile,” which was derived from the old English “fabrile,” meaning hand-wrought. These blown glass pieces, many of which were iridescent as well as irregular in form, became popular with the public very quickly and inspired many other glass designers.
All but one of the pieces in this exhibition are from two museum collections in upstate New York: the Reifschlager Collection, which was a gift to the Rockwell Museum of Western Art in Corning in 1982, and the collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca. The Cornell collection was assembled primarily from gifts from A. Douglas Nash and Edythe de Lorenzi. The exhibition also includes a lamp that was given to The Corning Museum of Glass by donors Jay and Micki Doros.
More about Louis Comfort Tiffany
and Favrile Glass
See the companion exhibition:
Tiffany Treasures: Design Drawings by Alice Gouvy and Lillian Palmié