Contents
Preface .6 Acknowledgments 1 An Overview 8
Chapter One: Louis Comfort Tiffany's Quest of Beauty _ 13 Louis Comfort Tiffany, Renaissance Man 13 Painting 15 Interior Design & Decoration 15 Louis C. Tiffany and Associated Artists 15 Stained Glass 15 Tiffany Glass Company 17 Favrile Glass 18 Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company 19 International Expositions and Tiffany Studios 19 Tiffany Collections 29 Enamels, Art Pottery, Jewelry & Metalwork 20 Mosaics 21
Chapter Two: A History of Mosaics and Tiffany's Infiuences_ 26 Mosaic as an Art Form 26 Mosaics of Ancient Greece 27 Mosaics of Ancient Rome 28 Mosaics of the Byzantine World 34 Mosaics in the Third Millennium 37
Chapter Three: Technique of Mosaics and Tiffany's Favrile Glass Production_ 38 The Art and Technique of Ancient Mosaics 39 Tiffany's Mosaic Technique 42 Mosaic Techniques Contemporary to Tiffany's 45 Tiffany's Favrile Glass Used in Mosaic Production 45
Chapter Four: The Artists of Tiffany's Studios_ 48 Joseph Briggs 49 Jacob Adolphus Holzer 50 Joseph Lauber 50 Frederick Wilson 51 Clara Driscoll 52 The Tiffany Craftswomen 52
Chapter Five: Tfce Tiffany Chapel and Exhibit for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition .53
Chapter Six: Mosaics in Residential or Domestic Interiors 59 Cornelius Vanderbilt Us Residence, New York City 61 The White House Commission, Washington, D.C. 61 Marquand Mansion, New York City 61 Tiffany Mansion, New York City 61 Louisine and Henry Osborne Havemeyer Residence, New York City 62 Yaddo Fireplace Mosaic, Saratoga Springs, New York 63 Emily Johnston and Robert W. de Forest Library, New York City 65 Frederick Ayer Mansion, Boston, Massachusetts 66 Laurelton Hall, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York 74 Residential Fireplace Surrounds 77 Additional Domestic/Residential Work from the Tiffany Mosaic Work Ledger 77
Chapter Seven: Mosaics in Ecclesiastic Settings 78 St. Hubert s Chapel, Kinnelon, New Jersey 79 St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Troy, New York 82 The Willard Memorial Chapel, Auburn, New York 84 St. Agnes Church, New York City 90 Grace Church, Madison, New Jersey 91 St. Michael's Church, New York City 91 Woodlawn Cemetery, New York: Fahnestock Mausoleum, Warner Tomb, Swan Monument 193 Mausoleum and Memorial Tablet Designs: The Charles Pratt Mausoleum, Glen Cove, Long Island, New York 105 Christ Church, Cincinnati, Ohio 107 Convent Chapel, Elmhurst, Providence, Rhode Island 107 Saint James'Church, New York City 107 Chapel of St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, New York 107 St. Matthews Church, Brooklyn, New York 107 St. Matthew's Church, Worcester, Massachusetts 107 First Presbyterian Church, Bath, New York 108 First Presbyterian Church, Binghamton, New York 113 Church of the Divine Paternity, New York City 113 Central Congregational Church, Boston, Massachusetts 114 Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola, New York City 118 Advent Lutheran Church, New York City 118 Washington Baptist Church, Eastport, Maine 118 Wade Memorial Chapel, Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio 119 Green Lawn Cemetery Chapel Mausoleum, Columbus, Ohio 125 Old St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland 129 St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Scranton, Pennsylvania 129 Christ Episcopal Church, Corning, New York 129 First Unitarian Church, New Bedford, Massachusetts 131 Madison Avenue Reformed Church, Albany, New York 136 St. John's Church, Jersey City, New Jersey 136 Church of the Messiah, New York City 137 Pilgrim United Church of Christ, New Bedford, Massachusetts 137 Christ Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, New York 139 First United Methodist Church, Los Angeles, Ca. (now Lake Merritt United Methodist Church, Oakland, California) 140 Immanuel Congregational United Church of Christ, Hartford, Connecticut 149 The " Last Supper" Mosaics 151 St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia 154 The First Independent Church of Baltimore (First Unitarian Church), Baltimore, Maryland 156 Chapel of Sanitarium, Clifton Springs, New York 161 Christ Church, Rochester, New York 162 Other Tiffany Ecclesiastic Work (which may include mosaics) 164 Additional Ecclesiastic Work from the Tiffany Mosaic Work Ledger 164
Chapter Eight: Mosaics in Commercial or Public Buildings 165 Seventh Regiment Armory, Veterans (Tiffany) Room and Library, New York City 166 Union League Club, New York City 169 Citizen's Savings Bank, Cleveland, Ohio and First National Bank, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 169 Henry Field Memorial Gallery at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 169 Congress Plaza Hotel, Chicago, Illinois 169 Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Commencement Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 170 Marquette Building, Chicago, Illinois 182 Manhattan Hotel, New York City 200 Johnston Building, New York City 200 Chicago Public Library (Chicago Cultural Center), Chicago, Illinois 201 Barnard College, Milbank Hall, Reading Room (now the Ella Weed Faculty Lounge), New York City 226 University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, (Penn Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 227 United States Mint at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 229 Tiffany Reading Room, Irvington Public Library, Irvington Town Hall, New York 238 Hudson Theater, (now the Millennium Broadway Hotel conference center), New York City 239 Garden Landscape and Fountain, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 239 Mosaic column, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 240 Marshall Field Department Store, (now Mary's on State Street), Chicago, Illinois 241 New York University, New York City 247 The Farwell Building, Detroit, Michigan 247 Additional Commercial work from the Tiffany Mosaic Work Ledger 247
Chapter Nine: Tiffany's Monumental Mosaic Works _ 248 The Theater Curtain, Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City 249 All Saints Chapel and Blessed Virgin's Chapel, The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri 255 Dream Garden Mural, Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 265
Chapter Ten: Decorative Uses of Mosaics 272 Oil and Electric Lamp Bases 273 Fancy Goods and Jewelry 275 Mosaic Decorative Panels 276 Mosaic and Leaded Glass Windows 276 Afterword .277 Appendix 1: Chronology _278 Appendix 2: Locations of Tiffany Mosaics .280 Appendix 3: Locations of Tiffany's New York Studios .282 Glossary of Mosaic and Glass Terms .283 Endnotes .295 Selected Bibliography 8c References .309 Index 311