Historical records matching Louis Comfort Tiffany
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About Louis Comfort Tiffany
Summary
Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. Tiffany was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewelry, enamels and metalwork.
Family
Louis was the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany and Company; and Harriet Olivia Avery Young.
Louis married Mary Woodbridge Goddard (c1850-1884) on May 15, 1872 in Norwich, Connecticut and had the following children:
- Mary Woodbridge Tiffany (1873–1963) married Graham Lusk
- Charles Louis Tiffany I (1874-1874)
- Charles Louis Tiffany II (1878–1947)
- Hilda Goddard Tiffany (1879–1908)
After the death of his wife, he married Louise Wakeman Knox (1851–1904) on November 9, 1886. They had the following children:
- Louise Comfort Tiffany (1887–1974) married Rodman Drake DeKay Gilder
- Julia DeForest Tiffany (1887–1973) married Gurdon S. Parker then married Francis Minot Weld
- Annie Olivia Tiffany (1888–1892)
- Dorothy Trimble Tiffany (1891–1979), who, as Dorothy Burlingham, later became a noted psychoanalyst and lifelong friend and partner of Anna Freud.
Many of Tiffany's descendants are active in the arts, politics, and the sciences. Only one descendant is working in glass today — Dr. Rodman Gilder Miller of Seattle, Washington.
From the 1870 federal census, Louis Comfort Tiffany lived with his parents and siblings in Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York. The family at that time consisted of: Head Charles Tiffany 50 Wife Harriet Tiffany 50 Daughter Annie Tiffany 23 Son Louis Tiffany 21 Daughter Louisa Tiffany 13 Son Burret Tiffany 11
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- Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art
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- Tiffany Chapel
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- Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company
- Tiffany jewelry
- Tiffany lamp
Sources
- William Warmus. The Essential Louis Comfort Tiffany. New York: Abrams, 2001. Pages 5-8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Comfort_Tiffany
Birth 18 Feb 1848 New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA Death 17 Jan 1933 (aged 84) New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA Burial Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA Show Map Plot Section 65, Lot 619 Memorial ID 2957 · View Source American Artist, Designer. He is best known for his work in stained glass and as the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. Born in New York City, New York, he was the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, the founder of Tiffany and Company. He received his education at the Pennsylvania Military Academy in Chester, Pennsylvania and the Eagleswood Military Academy in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Originally trained as a painter, he became interested in glassmaking around 1875, working at several glasshouses in Brooklyn, New York, from 1875 to 1878. In 1879 he joined with Candace Wheeler, Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form the Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists. In 1881 he did the interior design work of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, but his firm's most notable work occurred in 1882, when President Chester A. Arthur commissioned him to renovate the White House, specifically the East Room, the Blue Room, the Red Room, the State Dining Room, and the Entrance Hall, with new furnishings wallpaper, repainting in decorative patterns, installing newly designed mantelpieces, and adding Tiffany glass to the gaslight fixtures, windows, and installing the opalescent floor to ceiling glass screen in the Entrance Hall. In 1885 the firm broke up and he decided to pursue his own glassmaking firm, the Tiffany Glass Company, which became known as Tiffany Studios in 1902. In 1893 he built a new factory called the Stourbridge Glass Company in Corona, Queens, New York, which later became Tiffany Glass Furnaces. That same year he introduced the term "Favrile" (French for handmade) in conjunction with his first production of blown glass at his new factory and trademarked the term in November 1894. At its peak, the factory employed over 300 artisans. His first famous commercially produced lamps date from around 1895 and much of the company's production was in making stained glass windows and Tiffany lamps. In 1902 he became the first Design Director for his father's Tiffany and Company. His awards and honors include 44 medals at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, gold medal, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (France, 1900), grand prix, Paris Exposition (1900), grand prix, Saint Petersburg, Russia Exposition (1901), gold medal, Buffalo, New York Exposition (1901), gold medal, Dresden, Germany Exposition (1901), gold medal and special diploma, Turin, Italy Exposition (1902), gold medal, Saint Louis, Missouri Exposition (1904), gold medal, Jamestown Exposition (1907), grand prize, Seattle, Washington Exposition (1909), gold medal, Panama Exposition (1915), and gold medal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sesquicentennial Exposition (1926). He died in New York City, New York at the age of 84.
Bio by: William Bjornstad
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Louis Comfort Tiffany's Timeline
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February 18, 1848
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New York, New York, United States
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April 3, 1873
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December 9, 1874
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Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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January 7, 1878
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New York City, New York County, New York, United States
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August 24, 1879
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Irvington, Westchester County, New York, United States
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September 24, 1887
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New York, New York, United States
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September 24, 1887
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New York, New York, United States
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1888
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