Becoming Tiffany: From Hudson Valley Painter to Gilded Age Tastemaker

An exhibition of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany is on display at the Lyndhurst Mansion and gallery in Tarrytown, NY, beginning May 31, 2018.  The exhibition, entitled Becoming Tiffany: From Hudson Valley Painter to Gilded Age Tastemaker, will remain on view through September 24, 2018. The exhibition features pieces from the Lyndhurst collection, as well as works on loan from museums and private collections. On display will be more than 50 items including glass and mosaics, textiles, paintings, furniture and decorative arts. The exhibition focuses on Tiffany's career from the 1870s through the early 1900s and explores his emergence from painter to decorator. The first segment incorporates landscape, seascape and figure paintings by Tiffany, including Pushing Off, Seabright New Jersey, Fruit Vendors Under the Sea Wall, The Reaper and Duane Street. The exhibition continues with decorative artworks from the period when TIffany, along with Lockwood DeForest and Candace Wheeler, partnered to form the firm Associated Artists.  Included in this section are examples of carved teakwood furniture and Japanese-inspired textiles, as well as an aquamarine vase which Tiffany exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1899. This vase is on loan from the Haworth Collection in Accrington, England. The final section of the exhibition incorporates works by Tiffany commissioned for churches and libraries, including a window from the Irvington Presbyterian Church and a sconce from the Irvington Public Library.  On public view for the first time is an early Tiffany window from the Gould family mausoleum. In addition to the exhibits in the galleries there are displays of floral and geometric Tiffany Studios lamps set within the period rooms of the Mansion.