The NY Metropolitan Glass Club is very pleased to announce that Lise Dubé-Scherr, Director of Chicago’s Driehaus Museum, will be the featured speaker At the Club’s April meeting. She will lecture on the museum’s inaugural exhibition entitled “Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection” which opened last September and will run through June of this year. The exhibition features more than 60 objects and illustrates the range of L. C. Tiffany who worked in virtually all media available to artists and designers - glass, ceramic, metalwork, jewelry and painting over his prolific 50 year career.
 
The lecture will also detail new information about Tiffany and certain of his artworks unearthed in the course of mounting the exhibition and the writing of the companion book.Ms. Dubé-Scherr’s twenty-year career as a museum professional includes positions in both Canadian and American art museums and historic sites. Prior to assuming the directorship of the Driehaus Museum in April of 2011, she has worked at the National Gallery of Art in Ottawa and at the Mount, Edith Wharton’s estate, located in Lenox MA.

The Driehaus Museum is located in one of the grandest residential buildings of 19th Century Chicago, the Gilded Age home of banker Samuel Nickerson.  Collector and philanthropist Richard H. Driehaus purchased the home in 2003 and opened it as a Museum in 2008 after a five-year restoration. The galleries feature surviving furnishings including windows, lamps, vases and other Tiffany accessories paired with elegant, historically appropriate pieces by such celebrated designers as the Herter Brothers and George A Schastey.
 
Information: http://nycglassclub.org