MORSE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Tiffany "Young Woman at a Fountain (Aurora)" POSTER

Description: CH Morse Museum of American Art Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass window poster Title: Young Woman at a Fountain (Aurora)This glowing window illustrates the Gilded Age artist's renowned innovations in the art of Favrile glass from 1900-1910 Measures approx. 24” x 42” Good condition- see close up pics for some wear (and some glare from lights in photos) Around 1894, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) created a window based on Will H. Low’s painting of Aurora, the Roman goddess of dawn. Low was an accomplished New York illustrator and muralist who designed a number of high-profile windows for Tiffany. In the Aurora window, the purplish-rose sky and the maiden’s red hair and a rosy complexion suggest the theme of early morning. Tiffany’s reproduction of Low’s painting is a perfect example of the way he accomplished in glass something that would be impossible in a two-dimensional medium such as painting. For his dazzling multidimensional interpretation of Low’s design, Tiffany used a technique called plating—placing one piece of glass upon another—to create the painterly effects of light and shade. The window is four plates thick in some sections. Plating is used to give the impression of a tiny stream of water flowing from the fountain to a pool below and also to chastely reveal the figure’s sunlit form. Following a painstaking and lengthy period of conservation, the Aurora window has made a brilliant return to the galleries in the Morse exhibition Revival and Reform—Eclecticism in the 19th-Century Environment.

Price: 59.96 USD

Location: Redding, Connecticut

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