A New Light on Tiffany Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls
Contributions by Martin Eidelberg, Nina Gray and Margaret K. Hofer
Published by GILES in association with the New-York Historical Society
Publish Date — March 2007 (UK and USA)
Dimensions — 200 pages, 279 x 216 mm (8 ½ x 11 in.), portrait
Illustrations — 76 colour and 30 b & w illustrations
Hardback price — UK£29.99/US$49.95
ISBN — 1-904832-35-0
ISBN — 978-1-904832-35-5
Book Details (pdf) — A_New_Light_On_Tiffany_ai.pdf
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Press Release — Publication Shines a New Light on Tiffany
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“Provide[s] a new understanding of the techniques and procedures used to produce the extraordinary objects that made Tiffany such an exalted name in American Design” Jeffrey Kastner, The New York Times
“The catalogue provides a fascinating account of Driscoll’s personal and professional life” Isabel Taube, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Exhibition moves to the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL, January 31, 2012 through April 22, 2012
About the Book
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) is celebrated today as one of the most influential creative designers of the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries. A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls presents the celebrated works of Tiffany Studios in an entirely new context, focusing on the "Tiffany Girls", the 27 women who laboured behind the scenes to create the masterpieces now inextricably linked to the Tiffany name. Recently discovered correspondence written by Ohio-born Clara Driscoll, head of the so-called "Women's Glass Cutting Department" at Tiffany Studios, reveals in convincing and vivid detail how it was in fact Driscoll who generated designs for such masterpieces as the famous Wisteria, Dragonfly and Peony goods. At the heart of the book are over 50 Tiffany lamps, windows, ceramics, enamels and mosaics, supplemented by a wide array of related documents and archival photographs.
A reprint in 2009 accompanied the exhibition at Singer Laren, The Netherlands, December 18th, 2008 to August 30th, 2009 and Museum Villa Stuck, Munich in September 2009.
