Agnes Northrop and Tiffany’s Gardens in Glass

Verdant landscape scenes framed by sunlit foliage and punctuated with bright blossoms and serene streams are hallmarks of Agnes F. Northrop’s celebrated windows. She shared Louis C. Tiffany’s love of nature and used her keen powers of observation to cultivate gardens made of colorful glass. The highest-ranking woman at the Tiffany Studios, Northrop designed countless windows for churches and private homes during her extraordinary 50-year career at the firm.  This illustrated presentation will explore Northrop’s artistic inspirations and professional accomplishments, with a special look at her landscape window for the historic Second Presbyterian Church and other Chicago-area designs.

The Presenter

Lindsy R. Parrott is the executive director and curator of The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in New York City. During her seventeen-year career at The Neustadt, Parrott has conducted groundbreaking research on Tiffany’s opalescent flat glass, windows, mosaics and lamps. She has curated popular traveling exhibitions and developed The Neustadt’s partnership with the Queens Museum, which now houses a permanent gallery dedicated to changing exhibitions drawn from The Neustadt’s collection. She has also co-curated exhibitions including Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion for the Museum of Biblical Art and, most recently, Tiffany’s Glass Mosaics, organized jointly by The Neustadt and the Corning Museum of Glass. Parrott previously held positions at The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park and the Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach, both in Florida. She received her MA in the History of Decorative Arts through the Smithsonian/Parsons School of Design.

This event is a collaborative partnership between The Neustadt Collection and Friends of Historic Second Church.

Price per device.

$10 General Admission/ $8 Members

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