Alternative Truths: The Tiffany Women

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 6:00 – 7:30 pm

Jennifer P. Thalheimer, Curator and Collection Manager at the Morse Museum of American Art, will discuss the extraordinary life of Clara Driscoll and several other female artists from Tiffany Studios. A skilled artist, savvy businesswoman, and Director of the Women’s Glass Cutting Department for over 30 years, Driscoll was essential in sustaining Tiffany Studios’ reputation as the leading American glass and design company of the time.

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On September 7, the Richard H. Driehaus Museum will open Eternal Light: The Sacred Stained-Glass Windows of Louis Comfort Tiffany, an exhibition featuring 11 outstanding, ecclesiastical stained-glass windows made by Louis Comfort Tiffany and his workshop artisans between 1880 and 1925. The exhibition captures the artistic range and intricacy of Tiffany’s output, while drawing particular attention to his religiously-themed works as important signifiers of America’s rapidly shifting social, economic, and religious landscape at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.