SOLD OUT - Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Agnes Northrop

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Beyond the Glass Ceiling considers the artistry and success of Tiffany Studios through the work of Agnes Northrop, Tiffany Studios’ foremost female designer, whose role in the business has only recently come to light. The lecture 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 and reflect a more equitable truth.

This program will focus on the life and work of Agnes Northrop, who worked with Tiffany for five decades with her popular floral and landscape windows playing a key role in the success of the firm’s ecclesiastical business. Her work is featured prominently throughout the exhibition Eternal Light: The Sacred Stained Glass Windows of Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, has published widely and curated exhibitions on American ceramics and glass, as well as late nineteenth-century decorative arts, especially the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany. A graduate of Princeton University, she earned her MA at the Winterthur Program in early American culture. In 2009, she oversaw the curatorial team that reinstalled the American Wing’s Charles Engelhard Court, and in 2016 curated the installation of the Worsham-Rockefeller Dressing Room and organized the complementary exhibition, as well as co-authored the accompanying Met Bulletin on the Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age. She is currently working on a book on The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection of American Art Pottery

Image on left of Agnes Northrop provided by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen. Image on right: Agnes Northrup (American, 1857-1953), Landscape (detail), c 1890-1925. Gouache and oil on board. Collection of The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, RHDM.2017.2.34. Photograph by John Faier © Driehaus Museum, 2013.