Magnolias and Irises by Louis C. Tiffany - New York, NY
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Tiffany-designed stained-glass window, originally installed in a Brooklyn mausoleum, now displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Waymark Code: WM18RM4
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 09/18/2023
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Louis Comfort Tiffany, son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany & Co. of New York City, was an artist and designer best known for his work in the medium of stained glass. An accomplished painter and interior designer, Tiffany began to focus almost entirely on glass, even developing his own formula which he called Favrile glass. Today, anyone who’s been to an art museum would be familiar with Tiffany stained-glass windows, lamps and art glass objects.
In the first decade of the twentieth century, Tiffany Studios was producing a lot of stained glass for installation in memorials. Most of these were religious in nature but some showed landscape scenes like this one which was originally installed in the A. B. Frank mausoleum in Brooklyn, NY. Named ‘Magnolias and Irises,’ it depicts what has been called the ‘river of life.’
The stamp was part of a long-running series called ‘American treasures’ which featured works of art by different American artists. This ca. 1908 stained-glass window in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York was chosen for the design. But it could have been any of a number of iconic Tiffany designs, such as the interlocking N-Y which was part of a special NYC police award that ultimately was adopted as the logo for the New York Yankees.
Stamp Issuing Country: United States
Date of Issue: 9-Aug-2007
Denomination: 41c
Color: multicolored
Stamp Type: Single Stamp
Relevant Web Site: Not listed
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