Lecture Exhibition
SOLD OUT - Alternative Truths: The Tiffany Women
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Alternative Truths considers the artistry and success of Tiffany Studios through the lens of the impactful women of Tiffany Studios such as Clara Driscoll, and other women artists, creators, and managers of the Tiffany firms whose roles have only recently come to light. The discussion will interrogate the complex relationship between Louis Comfort Tiffany and his workers, by lifting the veil on the Master artist to re-frame this American Gilded Age success story to reflect a more equitable truth.
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. Thalheimer will debut new research that sheds light on several lesser-known women artists at Tiffany Studios and their contributions to the firms’ glittering success.
For the past 19 years, Jennifer P. Thalheimer has been interpreting the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum’s collection, while researching the life and art of Louis C. Tiffany. She lectures and writes on Tiffany and, more broadly, American decorative art. Thalheimer, who grew up on Long Island near the site of Tiffany’s estate, Laurelton Hall, earned a master’s degree from New York’s Parsons School of Design/Cooper-Hewitt Graduate Program in the History of Decorative Arts. She curated the Morse Museum’s 2011 exhibition, Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Laurelton Hall, in the 6,000 square foot addition to the Museum.
Leading up to the Morse’s expansion, Thalheimer wrote for the exhibition catalog and oversaw the Morse’s collaboration on the 2006–7 exhibition Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall—An Artist’s Country Estate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has also contributed essays regarding Tiffany to catalogs including the former Museum of Biblical Art’s exhibition Louis C. Tiffany and The Art of Devotion, Lafayette College’s Tiffany at Lafayette, and most recently, The Corning Museum of Glass’ Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics. Thalheimer’s ongoing project for the Morse Museum, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Chronology, is an online resource which centralizes documented facts of Tiffany’s life.
Image: View of the Glass Room with Women at Work. Art Interchange, October 1894.
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