{"id":141898,"date":"2025-04-23T16:25:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=141898"},"modified":"2025-04-23T16:25:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:25:45","slug":"summer-of-tiffany-at-the-allentown-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=141898","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSummer of Tiffany\u201d at the Allentown Art Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSummer of Tiffany\u201d at the Allentown Art Museum
\n<\/strong>Monumental windows, exquisite lamps, and activities for all ages<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Allentown, PA \u2013<\/strong>On Saturday, April 26<\/strong>, the Allentown Art Museum opens its doors for the first time on an extraordinary pair of 14-foot-high landscape memorial windows created by Tiffany Studios. The windows, designed and produced early last century, were formally acquired by the Museum late last year after a multiyear campaign to conserve and bring the windows to Allentown.<\/p>\n

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Tiffany Studios (American, 1902-1932), design attributed to Agnes Northrop (American, 1857-1953), Thompson Memorial Window, 1913, and Derr Memorial Window, 1919, leaded Favrile glass. Allentown Art Museum: purchase, Leigh Schadt and Edwin Schadt Art Museum Trust Fund and with the generous support of more than 220 donors to the Tiffany Windows Campaign 2017-2025. (2024.8.1, 2)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Admission to the Museum is free this weekend and always, <\/strong>Thursday through Sunday, 11a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Third Thursdays 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Parking is free in the Museum\u2019s lot at Fifth and Linden Streets.<\/p>\n

Stunning in their beauty, these leaded-glass windows demonstrate artist and Tiffany Studios founder Louis Comfort Tiffany\u2019s pioneering use of landscape to commemorate a lost loved one. Agnes Northrop, a key creative force at Tiffany Studios for fifty years, likely designed these floral-filled, evocative compositions featuring rivers as a metaphor for the passage of life and offering nature as solace.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese particular windows are incredibly special because they have such emotional power after more than a hundred years,\u201d says the Museum\u2019s vice president of curatorial affairs, Elaine Mehalakes.<\/p>\n

The luminous designs reflect Tiffany\u2019s technical innovations, their glow created by layers of opalescent Favrile glass that transmit light and intensify color.<\/p>\n

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Poppy Library Lamp with Moth Lamp Screen, made in New York, sometime between 1900 and 1910. Created by Tiffany Studios under the artistic direction of Louis C. Tiffany (1848\u20131933). The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, Queens, NY.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The acquisition, conservation, and installation of these remarkable windows is the culmination of a community effort supported by more than 220 individuals and foundations. Their purchase benefits the United Presbyterian Church in Pottsville, PA, for which they were originally commissioned, by allowing the organization to continue and expand social programs in their community. The Allentown Art Museum is honored to be able to conserve and preserve these important works for generations to come.<\/p>\n

Also opening Saturday <\/strong>in the same space, the newly renovated Kress Gallery, is a complementary exhibition of Tiffany lamps on loan from the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in New York. Tiffany\u2019s Gardens in Glass <\/em>explores Louis C. Tiffany\u2019s enduring interest in the natural world and illuminates his studios\u2019 path from inspiration to expression. Featured are ten of Tiffany Studios\u2019 famously lush botanical lamps and gardens windows, along with nine nature study photographs drawn from the Studios\u2019 own extensive reference collection.<\/p>\n

Today, floral lamps and landscape windows are among Tiffany\u2019s most recognizable and celebrated works. Perpetually in bloom, these gardens in glass are a passionate celebration of nature, and a testimony to the sophisticated design and exquisite craftsmanship of Tiffany Studios.<\/p>\n

Tiffany\u2019s Gardens in Glass <\/em>was curated by the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, Queens, New York. This exhibition continues at the Museum through June 29, 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To celebrate the arrival of the windows in their new, permanent home, the Museum is offering a full schedule of programs and events related to Tiffany<\/strong>, most of them free to the public. For a complete schedule, visit www.allentownartmuseum.org<\/strong><\/a> or CLICK HERE<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n

ABOUT THE ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Allentown Art Museum is the premier arts institution in the Lehigh Valley, housing a collection of more than 20,000 works and offering dynamic public education and engagement programs. Since eliminating admission fees in 2022, the Museum has become a vital cultural resource for the community, fostering creativity, inclusion, and lifelong learning. For more information please visit AllentownArtMuseum.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Information provided to TVL by:
\nChris Potash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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