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Between its founding in 1879 and the Depression, Tiffany Studios of New York City was the foremost decorating firm in America. As part of its activities, the firm designed and produced a wide range of objects in the media of silver, ceramics, and glass.
Before World War I, the majority of Tiffany Studio's work was in the Art Nouveau and Oriental tastes. By the 1910s, American design was moving away from the undulating curves of Art Nouveau and towards the clean lines of "Arte Moderne" under the leadership of master designers like Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928, Glasgow), Joseph Hoffmann (1870-1956, Vienna), and Georg Jensen (1866-1935, Copenhagen). In response to this new impulse, American products became simpler, more streamlined. Dated 1918, the metallic blue surface and classic outline of this favrile glass vase reveal the dawn of Art Deco.
Tiffany noted that his glass "is distinguished by brilliant or deeply toned colors, usually iridescent like the wings of certain American butterflies, the necks of pigeons and peacocks, the wing covers of various beetles." The iridescent effect was obtained though the vapors of metallic oxides interacting with the surface of the hot glass.
Adapted from
Charles Venable, DMA unpublished material, 1988.
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- DMA unpublished material = (Charles Venable, Acquisition Justification); also label text transcribed 3/9/17
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Until 1988: Collection of Mrs. David Bruton, Sr., Dallas, Texas [1]
From 1988: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Rita Odell
[1] See "arrival worksheet" in Collections Records Object File dated April 19, 1988.
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13315978: UMO. Exhibition lecture in conjunction with Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement; with Martin Eidelberg, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Rutgers University; explore American artists’ varied responses to the challenges and tensions of an urban, industrial society and the demands of art at the turn of the century—from the furniture made by Gustav Stickley, to the ceramics made at the Rookwood and Grueby potteries, and the lamps and Favrile glass vases from Tiffany Studios
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General Description
Between its founding in 1879 and the Depression, Tiffany Studios of New York City was the foremost decorating firm in America. As part of its activities, the firm designed and produced a wide range of objects in the media of silver, ceramics, and glass.
Before World War I, the majority of Tiffany Studio's work was in the Art Nouveau and Oriental tastes. By the 1910s, American design was moving away from the undulating curves of Art Nouveau and towards the clean lines of "Arte Moderne" under the leadership of master designers like Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928, Glasgow), Joseph Hoffmann (1870-1956, Vienna), and Georg Jensen (1866-1935, Copenhagen). In response to this new impulse, American products became simpler, more streamlined. Dated 1918, the metallic blue surface and classic outline of this favrile glass vase reveal the dawn of Art Deco.
Tiffany noted that his glass "is distinguished by brilliant or deeply toned colors, usually iridescent like the wings of certain American butterflies, the necks of pigeons and peacocks, the wing covers of various beetles." The iridescent effect was obtained though the vapors of metallic oxides interacting with the surface of the hot glass.
Adapted from
Charles Venable, DMA unpublished material, 1988.
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- updated provenance and geo x refs
- DMA unpublished material = (Charles Venable, Acquisition Justification); also label text transcribed 3/9/17
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Until 1988: Collection of Mrs. David Bruton, Sr., Dallas, Texas [1]
From 1988: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Rita Odell
[1] See "arrival worksheet" in Collections Records Object File dated April 19, 1988.
AUDIO ASSETS
13315978: UMO. Exhibition lecture in conjunction with Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement; with Martin Eidelberg, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Rutgers University; explore American artists’ varied responses to the challenges and tensions of an urban, industrial society and the demands of art at the turn of the century—from the furniture made by Gustav Stickley, to the ceramics made at the Rookwood and Grueby potteries, and the lamps and Favrile glass vases from Tiffany Studios
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