Founded in 1863, just north of Manhattan, Woodlawn Cemetery is a picturesque, 400-acre site that houses one of the largest and finest collections of funerary art in the country.  A National Historic Landmark, the Cemetery includes some 1,300 mausoleums, most of which retain their original stained-glass windows.  This window collection is perhaps the most comprehensive in America: it represents the range of stained-glass styles and techniques found in the country over an approximately fifty-year period, from the late 1870s through the 1930s.  Although some of the stained-glass firms who created the windows have been identified—for instance, Tiffany Studios, owned by Louis Comfort Tiffany alone produced more than fifty windows at Woodlawn—countless other makers are currently unidentified or unknown. 

In 2020, Woodlawn Cemetery brought together an expert team of stained-glass conservators and historians to survey and evaluate the collection, including documenting the windows, assessing their current condition, making recommendations for their future conservation and protection, and researching their individual histories.  In this presentation, Van Vorst and Parrott will describe the scope of this project and highlight some of the conservation issues and art-historical discoveries made by the Woodlawn Stained-Glass Survey Team.

Our speaker for the night, Lindsy Parrott is the executive director and curator at The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass.

A zoom virtual link will be sent out a few days prior.

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Photo: Harbeck Memorial Window: Christ in Majesty (detail), ca. 1917
Tiffany Studios; Frederick Wilson, designer
Woodlawn Cemetery & Conservancy, Bronx, New York