The exhibition will also highlight the role of Tiffany’s turn-of-the-20th-century showrooms, where he presented the finest examples of the company's completed work for clients and the public. Walking into the exhibition, visitors will see one of the grand mosaic columns made for the company’s showrooms in New York City, as well as luxurious, mosaic fancy goods, lamps, and decorative panels that originally adorned the opulent private residences built by American financiers and industrialists. 
 
“Tiffany’s successful combination of art and business coincided with the rapid development of consumer culture in the United States,” said Kelly Conway, curator of American glass at CMoG and co-curator of Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics. “His impressive New York City showrooms and clever, gorgeous displays of the company’s mosaics at world’s fairs, coupled with strategic marketing, sparked consumer interest and drove demand for glass mosaic luxury objects.”
 
Because many of Tiffany’s most important mosaics are still installed in their original settings, CMoG’s photography team visited 12 locations in New York State, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Chicago, to capture detailed shots of these artworks. This exciting new photography will be presented in an immersive “Mosaic Theater,” a gallery in the exhibition that will use high-definition monitors to transport visitors to the various mosaic sites. They will be able to experience these mosaics up close and at eye level, in their original architectural settings, and in stunning detail, providing the opportunity for heightened appreciation of the design, glass selection, and craftsmanship.
 
Artworks have been generously loaned by private collectors and the Chrysler Museum of Art, Haworth Art Gallery, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Rockwell Museum, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Demonstrations and Activities

“Although Louis C. Tiffany is best known for his pioneering leaded glass windows and lamps, his mosaics are the culmination of his experimentation and artistry in glass,” said Lindsy Parrott, director and curator at The Neustadt and co-curator of Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics. “Indeed, the mosaics represent an exciting synthesis of his work in both leaded and blown glass. Using a rich variety of materials, including multicolored opalescent glass and shimmering iridescent glass, accented with three-dimensional glass ‘jewels,’ Tiffany’s innovations in glass established a bold new aesthetic for mosaics and contributed a uniquely American character to the centuries-old art form.”

The exhibition will also highlight the role of Tiffany’s turn-of-the-20th-century showroom, where he presented the finest examples of his completed work for his clients and the public. Photographs of the various workrooms were part of Tiffany’s marketing efforts and were used in both his advertisements as well as his marketing brochures. These “behind-the-scenes” photos emphasized that each object made at the Tiffany Studios was handcrafted, as opposed to mass produced.

“Tiffany’s successful combination of art and business coincided with the rapid development of consumer culture in the United States,” said Kelly Conway, curator of American glass at CMoG and co-curator of Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics. “His impressive New York City showroom and clever, gorgeous displays of the company’s mosaics at world’s fairs, coupled with strategic marketing, sparked consumer interest and drove demand for high-priced luxury objects for the home.”

Publication
 
Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics will be accompanied by a new publication presenting the most comprehensive documentation and analysis of Tiffany’s glass mosaics to date. The volume advances scholarship in the field, and offers new perspectives for readers at all levels of expertise. Authors include the co-curators Conway and Parrott; Elizabeth J. De Rosa, independent curator; Natalie Z. Peters, independent art historian; Jennifer Perry Thalheimer, curator and collection manager, Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art; and Karol B. Wight, president and executive director, CMoG. The appendix was meticulously researched and compiled by Morgan T. Albahary, curatorial and collection assistant, The Neustadt.
 
The landmark book is richly illustrated with new photography of Tiffany’s most celebrated mosaic commissions, including The Dream Garden in the Curtis Center in Philadelphia and Jacques Marquette’s Expedition in Chicago’s Marquette Building. Double page spreads show extant mosaics in situ and allow readers to see vivid details of the works for the first time. The publication also includes important archival material and contextual photographs from major museums, libraries, and private collections in the United States and Europe. A comprehensive appendix of all of Tiffany’s known public, ecclesiastical, and residential mosaic commissions serves as both a reference for researchers and a guide for anyone interested in visiting extant Tiffany mosaics.

About The Neustadt
Dedicated to preservation, scholarship, education, and connoisseurship, The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass provides an in-depth look at the artistry of Tiffany Studios and its contribution to a uniquely American chapter in the history of stained glass. The organization is committed to sharing this story and its collections with diverse audiences through its gallery at the Queens Museum in New York City and exhibitions that travel to museums nationwide. The Neustadt holds a premier collection of Louis C. Tiffany’s celebrated lamps, windows, metalwork, and rare archival materials, including more than a quarter of a million pieces of original Tiffany flat glass and glass “jewels” used to create his iconic designs.
 
About The Corning Museum of Glass
The Corning Museum of Glass is the foremost authority on the art, history, science, and design of glass. It is home to the world’s most important collection of glass, including the finest examples of glassmaking spanning 3,500 years. Live glassblowing demonstrations (offered at the Museum, on the road, and at sea) bring the material to life. Daily Make Your Own Glass experiences at the Museum enable visitors to create work in a state-of-the-art glassmaking studio. The campus in Corning includes a year-round glassmaking school—The Studio—and the Rakow Research Library, with the world’s preeminent collection of materials on the art and history of glass. Located in the heart of the Finger Lakes Wine Country of New York State, the Museum is open daily, year-round. Children and teens, 17 and under, receive free admission.

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